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It’s finally Thanksgiving! For most of you it’s a needed respite from studying, papers and the pressure of mid-terms. You’ve done enough serious research on academic topics, so how about researching something fun and carefree—like the Thanksgiving holiday? Let’s do some research on the holiday and the centerpiece of this commemorative day—the turkey. The first stop was the JSTOR database where a keyword search of the terms (thanksgiving AND holiday AND history) retrieves this article: Pleck, Elizabeth. “The Making of the Domestic Occasion: The History of Thanksgiving in the United States.” Journal of Social History 32.4 (1999): 773-74. Here, you’ll learn that Thanksgiving evolved as a “domestic occasion”  beginning in the mid-nineteenth century. Next, a search of the Internet Public Library reveals many interesting links including an article entitled Out of  This World Thanksgiving from NASA about celebrating the holiday in space. You can also do serious research on turkeys using the Academic Search Premier database. Just go to the Subject Terms guide and key in turkeys and you get some related terms including wild turkeys, which leads to an article entitled Ground Invasion. Reading the abstract, you’ll discover that the East Bay hills in California are being overtaken by—you guessed it—wild turkeys (and pigs!) McGlynn, Daniel. “Ground Invasion.” Bay Nature 10.4 (2010): 18-22. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Finally, did you know that this year, the estimated cost is $43.47 for a traditional Thanksgiving feast for 10 people? You can find other interesting statistics about gobblers and Thanksgiving gathered by the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University. Enjoy your break and your Thanksgiving feast!

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