“Ha!” says a Florida group, asserting the very, very first Thanksgiving happened in 1565 when the Spanish settlers of St.

An early example of Pilgrim respect for the humanity of Native Americans came from the pen of Edward Winslow. Winslow was one ...

This column was written by the MDJ’s late editorial page columnist, Joe Kirby. It has since become a tradition to publish it ...

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 ...

Guest Opinion. Thanksgiving has always been a conflicting time for me as an Indigenous person. In elementary school, I ...

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Give thanks in any way you prefer, but taking a day to enjoy the company of family and friends is a tradition that we can all ...

The colonists who celebrated their arrival on the shores were killed in a bloody uprising of Native Americans across the ...

When the Mayflower set sail in 1620, it relied on hemp, a plant that now holds the potential for a U.S.-based industrial ...

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, ...