The Mayflower Pilgrims are famed for founding Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, after landing in 1620. They later celebrated the first "Thanksgiving", which has become an enduring American tradition.

Thanksgiving is really the holiday that made the other American holidays possible. Were it not for the Pilgrims having courage, absolute faith in their cause and calling, and the willingness to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (KBTX) - Thanksgiving preparations are in full swing in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the place where 404 years ago, the Mayflower Pilgrims held a harvest feast to celebrate their first ...

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 Wampanoag are a Native American tribe that has inhabited present day Massachusetts and Eastern Rhode Island for over 10,000 years. The Wampanoag did eventually help the Pilgrims, but it was a ...

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 ...