The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation encourages visitors to celebrate the season with Jamestown Settlement and the American ...

When the first settlers arrived in Jamestown in April 1607 and raised a cross at Cape Henry, claiming the land for England, ...

By Jeff Moore Historical accounts of the first Thanksgiving celebrated by some early settlers in what is now New England represent the moral underpinnings of what makes America the most prosperous ...

Remember those who endured incredible hardships to give us the institutions and ideals that helped create this country — and ...

An ancient DNA (aDNA) study at the 17th-century English colony of Jamestown, Virginia, has identified two of the town's earliest settlers, and revealed an unexpected family secret. Founded in AD 1607, ...

From the landing on Plymouth Rock to the harmonious feast with the native Wampanoags, the story about the Pilgrims is rife ...

One of my family’s early road trips after immigrating to the U.S. was to Jamestown and Williamsburg, where we learned about ...

Epic Guide to Revolutionary War National Park Sites! Find out which National Park Sites share the history of the America ...

No one knows quite what to do with Thanksgiving since most of what we think of as “tradition” is bogus, former Historic ...

Smithsonian Magazine highlights the role of a Rochester historian and archaeologist in unearthing Bermuda's colonial ...

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 ...

Modern America’s birthplace is bereft of hot dogs, French fries and pizza. I taste not a single burger on the journey to ...