For the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts, a three-day feast in the autumn of 1621 was a thanksgiving for a successful ...
Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving, when Wampanoag peoples shared a harvest meal with ...
A popular Thanksgiving hymn begins, “We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing.” This Thanksgiving we might consider ...
We’ve all heard the story of the first Thanksgiving. The plight of pilgrims traveling from England to establish Plymouth ...
The graves of American Indians have been desecrated from the time of the arrival of the Pilgrims to the present day. During ...
We've all heard the story of the first Thanksgiving. The plight of pilgrims traveling from England to establish Plymouth ...
On the second Monday of October, a federal holiday acknowledges the voyage of the acclaimed navigator Christopher Columbus to the new world. In the days preceding the holiday, dramatic accounts of his ...
As we sit down later this month for the annual Thanksgiving dinner, there will be turkey, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, ...
Thanksgiving is the oldest and most truly American of our national holidays. If you ask young school students who hosted and attended the first Thanksgiving dinner, you will surely hear that it was ...
The iconic image that the holiday conjures is that of the famous 1621 feast between Pilgrims and Native Americans in Plymouth, Massachusetts. While that is the symbolic start of the tradition ...
One mother of preschool-aged twins was taken aback when she learned that her children's teacher was planning a ...
"The First Thanksgiving, 1621" by artist Karen Rinaldo, depicts the event as it actually might have been: with Native ...