This Thanksgiving marks 70 years since New Mexico’s Mayflower Society was founded by descendants of the ship’s 102 passengers. Our mission is to keep the Pilgrim story alive and relevant to New ...

The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution. They left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas. The First Thanksgiving, 1621, by Jean Leon Gerome ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Jean Leon Gerome Ferris - Public Domain/Wiki Commons. When you think of the first Thanksgiving, you probably imagine ...

This Thanksgiving marks 70 years since New Mexico’s Mayflower Society was founded by descendants of the ship’s 102 passengers. Our mission is to keep the Pilgrim story alive and relevant to New ...

LONDON — In 1970, Native American leader Wamsutta Frank James was asked to give a speech at a state dinner in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It had been 350 years since the arrival of the Mayflower, and ...

Washington, D.C. (7News) — This time of year, all the attention is turned to Plymouth, Massachusetts where 404 years ago the Mayflower pilgrims held a harvest feast to celebrate their first successful ...

Nine in 10 Americans gather around a table to share food on Thanksgiving. At this polarizing moment, anything that promises to bring Americans together warrants our attention. But as a historian of ...

Before you trot out the turkey for this year’s big feast, how much do you know about the original celebration that began the holiday tradition? Test your knowledge with this short quiz. 1. The ...

The Wampanoag were the Native American tribe that joined the Pilgrims for the “First Thanksgiving,” yet much of the common lore about that story is inaccurate. For example, the Wampanoag weren’t ...

In some ways, Thanksgiving is a tradition that unites Americans. But the classic image of the Pilgrims obscures important parts of the country’s story. Nine in 10 Americans gather around a table to ...