For the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts, a three-day feast in the autumn of 1621 was a thanksgiving for a successful ...

One of the first floats to start the parade route at Plymouth Rock is a replica of the Mayflower II. The original Mayflower ...

Traditional "first Thanksgiving" stories taught in schools tend to erase the true history, and the Native American ...

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

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 ...

This joyous annual parade through Plymouth, Massachusetts, is one of the nation's only historically accurate chronological ...

Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving, when Wampanoag peoples shared a harvest meal with ...

When the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag shared the first Thanksgiving in 1621, sweet potatoes, apple pie, and turkey were missing ...

Massachusetts became the cradle of the American Revolution ... The Wampanoag tribe — which helped the Pilgrims to survive — ...

Felix Mizioznikov/Shutterstock Plymouth Rock carries along its stony back an essential piece of United States history. This ...

The proclamation declaring the first official American celebration of Thanksgiving called upon God to “fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to ...

Scans performed by a Boston surveying and engineering firm were used to create a sculpture of Plymouth Rock in Scrooby, ...