Letter writers debate the origins of Thanksgiving, praise help for caregivers, discuss the basis of gun control and lament ...
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 ...
From the landing on Plymouth Rock to the harmonious feast with the native Wampanoags, the story about the Pilgrims is rife ...
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, ...
One of my family’s early road trips after immigrating to the U.S. was to Jamestown and Williamsburg, where we learned about ...
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 ...
SECRETS OF THE DEAD “Jamestown’s Dark Winter” Wednesday, November 27 at 10:00 pm Jamestown, Virginia. The site of the first ...
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 13 original colonies of the United States were the foundation of what would become a new nation, born from a blend of ambition, conflict and compromise. These colonies stretched along the Atlantic ...