Historian and professor David J. Silverman reveals the true roots of Thanksgiving and explains how the holiday has been used to misrepresent the Wampanoag Native Americans.

Every year, students are taught that Thanksgiving is a celebration of the 1621 feast between the English settlers of New England and the Wampanoag Native Americans.

As the myth goes, the Pilgrims were struggling with agriculture in the 'New World' and the Wampanoag showed them how to reap a plentiful harvest, leading to a peaceful, bountiful meal.

David J. Silverman is a historian, author, and professor at George Washington University's Department of History.

Silverman has won multiple awards from the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the New York Association of History.

In this book, Silverman contextualizes Thanksgiving in a narrative that focuses on Native Americans, showing how the holiday's underlying myths have been used to devalue indigenous culture and thus, history.