Americans love to rewrite our history. Which version will we tell about Covid?

American exceptionalism sanitized the first Thanksgiving. Let's not mythologize Covid. [View in browser]( [Image]( November 26, 2020 [A photo illustration shows a page in a book depicting a stereotypical pilgrim, who has a Covid-19 germ as a head, holding a roasted turkey]( It's Thanksgiving in the United States, a holiday built around feasting, football and stories. Stories about what kind of people we've been the last year, about what blessings we're thankful for, about our family and our history. But the tale America prefers to tell itself about the first Thanksgiving isn't exactly what happened, Hayes Brown points out in his newest essay. History is messier and less kind that what we prefer to remember. A simple narrative is a comfort to a nation grappling with its mistakes. It's worth asking, then: What will be the story that future Americans tell themselves when talking about the coronavirus pandemic? 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