Enjoy these Thanksgiving classics everyone knows and loves! These are certainly not all parody songs written and recorded last week by humor columnist Alexandra Petri and composer Jack Mitchell!

“Gourds,” from the musical “Gourds”

“1-800 Butterball (Counter Space Oddity),” by David Buoy

“Uncle John’s Had Three Too Many Cocktails,” by the Uncle John Singers

“Terminal B,” from the musical “Princess of LaGuardia”

“Uncle John’s Had One Too Many Cocktails,” by the Uncle John Singers

“It’s Not Christmas Yet!” by Scaly Dave from “This Is Not A Christmas Album”

“Pumpkin Spice,” by Unknown (Corporate)

“Draw a Hand Turkey!” by The Gobblers

“Pardon Me (Lament),” from “Les Turquies”

A "Gay Girl in Damascus" is actually a straight man in Scotland. Washington Post bloggers Melissa Bell and Elizabeth Flock explain how they uncovered his true identity.

Unraveling "Gay Girl in Damascus"

The Washington Post’s David Rowell traveled thousands of miles to search for a remarkable, elusive musical instrument. In the hunt for “the hang,” Rowell's journey ushered in musicologists, instrument-makers, musicians, and an unexpected new friendships.

Dreams and Drums  A Search in Switzerland

"My Species," Jane Hirshfield

Who exactly was our first president? Bob Woodward, Joel Achenbach and Julie Miller kick off our first episode of Presidential.

George Washington: The man, the myth, the legend

Sue Klebold reads an excerpt from her book, "A Mother’s Reckoning." (Audio excerpted courtesy of Penguin Random House.) 

Excerpt from "A Mothers Reckoning"

Martin Van Buren did much to create the political party establishments we have today. Experts Barbara Bair and Mark Cheathem, along with Washington Post reporter Chris Cillizza, examine his mark on modern politics.

Martin Van Buren: The story of our two-party system

They Might Be Giants singer John Linnell and historian Amy Greenberg are guests on this episode. Through hard work and strategic lying, the 11th president managed to accomplish everything on his agenda. But is being effective the same as being great?

James K. Polk: Getting it done

The LBJ Presidential Library's director, Mark Updegrove, helps us examine how Johnson worked his will--at times darkly--to get some of the most transformative legislation of the 20th century through Congress.

Lyndon B. Johnson: Power

Starting May 1, this five-part miniseries will introduce you to stories of mixed race Americans. Five episodes, five themes, and a whole bunch of stories to make you think about what it means to be an American.

Introducing 'Other: Mixed Race in America'

Trump begins his presidency with his inaugural address on Jan. 20, 2017.

President Trump's inaugural address

In the premier episode of “Constitutional,” we go back in time to that hot Philadelphia summer in 1787 when a group of revolutionary Americans debated, drank and together drafted the U.S. Constitution.

Episode 01: Framed

This "we the people" episode explores indigenous rights. In 1879, a case involving Chief Standing Bear came before a Nebraska courtroom and demanded an answer to the question: Are Native Americans considered human beings under the U.S. Constitution?

Episode 02: Ancestry

What makes someone American? A landmark Supreme Court case in 1898, involving a child born in San Francisco to Chinese immigrant parents, would help answer that question.

Episode 03: Nationality

As powerful as it was to change the Constitution after the Civil War, and enshrine racial equality into our governing document, that wasn’t enough to change the reality of life in America.

Episode 04: Race

From the American Revolution through today, women have been leading a long-burning rebellion to gain rights not originally guaranteed under the Constitution.

Episode 05: Gender

When the United States changed its process for electing senators, did that lead to a decline in state power? Or did it instead bring us closer to a "more perfect union"?

Episode 06: Senate and states

President Trump spoke at a 9/11 observance event at the Pentagon, 16 years after the attack.

President Trump's full remarks in remembrance of 9/11

In 1963, the Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that states must offer a defense attorney to all poor people accused of crimes. The decision transformed the concept of fair trials in America, but left major challenges to the justice system today.

Episode 08: Fair trials

"There is so much feeling of racial injustice around the issue of punishment. And you have to understand that those feelings have a history -- and that history is Parchman Farm."

Episode 09: Fair punishment

Why do First Amendment rights trump nearly every other right in America? Thank Jehovah's Witnesses.

Episode 16: The First Amendment

There’s one thing that you can’t have delivered anymore that was totally normal to send by mail in the early 1900s.

Special delivery!

In October 1967, antiwar protesters announced that they would march en masse to the front steps of the Pentagon. and levitate it. And then they would try to levitate it.

The day anti-Vietnam War protesters tried to levitate the Pentagon

Was the duke a Nazi sympathizer? Did he plot to dethrone his brother, King George VI? Did he really suggest more German bombing of Britain might end World War II?

Were the Duke of Windsor and Adolf Hitler friends?

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy devastated the nation. But the day before the shooting was just a normal day. It was particularly calm and uneventful for the gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald.

Lee Harvey Oswald's final hours before killing Kennedy

When Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle are married this weekend, there will be one other royal on the world’s minds - Harry’s mother, the beloved Princess Diana.

Princess Diana's final hours

The Pulitzer Prize-winning musician talks about how his new work "the ever-funky lowdown" fits in the current conversation around race and how rap and hip-hop is damaging to that conversation.

This interview includes strong language, including the n-word

Jazz artist Wynton Marsalis says rap and hip-hop are 'more damaging than a statue of Robert E. Lee'

Robert F. Kennedy's death, which came just weeks after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., shocked the nation, especially those who looked to him to continue the national discussion over racial inequality.

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