COMMON THANKSGIVING BELIEFS

Contrary to popular belief, the pilgrims dressed in black and white clothing only on Sunday and other formal or solemn occasions, and large ornamental buckles didn't come into fashion until much later in the 1600s

Due to a poor harvest the next year the pilgrims never celebrated another Thanksgiving, and it remained an irregularly-observed holiday in America for more than two centuries.

The first time all the states in the U.S. celebrated Thanksgiving together was in 1777, but that was a one-time only affair prompted by the Revolutionary War. Abraham Lincoln established Thanksgiving as a national holiday celebrated on the last Thursday in November in 1863, and Franklin Roosevelt moved it to the fourth Thursday in November in 1939.

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