Copied Did you know that for much of the 19th century, Thanksgiving was only celebrated by New Englanders and Northeastern transplants in the upper Midwest and New York? Learn more about Sarah ...

This week we've been combing through the NPR archives for Thanksgiving stories from years ... of the holiday that stretched back into the 19th century. Here's that story from November 25, 1971.

While Thanksgiving is now celebrated as a time to come together, a 19th-century campaign to establish it as a permanent holiday was interpreted as a culture war against the American South.