Life in the “New Word” is markedly different since the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock more than 400 years ago. Since then, ...

The American Puritans of the 1630s and beyond were more ardent, and nervous about salvation, than the Pilgrims of the 1620s.

This Thanksgiving, as we gather around our tables, let us give thanks for the men and women who dared to dream, who risked ...

Want your Thanksgiving to bring people closer together? Ask these three questions to bridge the great divides of our time.

The Indigenous community members who live in the United States tell a much different story about Thanksgiving.

The third Thursday of November is the National Day of Mourning for some Indigenous peoples. They are fighting for ecological ...

George Washington,” a 1863 engraving after a painting by Alonzo Chappel, measures 7 3/8 inches by 5 3/8 inches, from ...

Although not a religious holiday per se, Thanksgiving does have historical and cultural roots that are deeply tied to faith.

"Desire, where's my shoe buckle?" The first names of the women at the first Thanksgiving included Remember, Humility, ...

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 ...

Every November, numerous articles recount the arrival of 17th-century English Pilgrims and Puritans and their quest for ...

Author Lowell Streiker once asked his four-year-old grandson how he liked his Thanksgiving dinner. “I didn’t like the turkey ...