History Won’t Be Coming to Save Us

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Drew Magary
Dec 4, 2019
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ColumnHistory Won’t Be Coming to Save Us
Thanks to Trump and the internet, fake history is as real as fake news
Photo: Nicholas Kamm/Getty ImagesThanksgiving was last week and I’ve known for a good long time now that the history of Thanksgiving I was taught as a child — the pilgrims and Indians breaking bread together, Squanto teaching the settlers to plant fish with crops to help them grow…
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Thanks to Trump and the internet, fake history is as real as fake news

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