Plymouth Colony and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving.” As Americans looked for an origin story that wasn’t soaked in the blood of Native Americans or built on the backs of slavery ...

Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving." Myth: The Pilgrims came to the New World seeking religious freedom. The group we most often associate with the Pilgrims — the Puritan ...

Thanksgiving, which falls on the last Thursday of November, is the most important holiday for many Americans, often ...

It is the first Thanksgiving. Winslow’s account is ... Love and Death in Plymouth Colony." The two men bridged a cross-cultural relationship that benefited both sides for several decades before ...

To the editor: Seemingly every year we get an article like this, about how the “first Thanksgiving” that took place in the Plymouth colony in 1621 was really the forerunner of European cruelty ...

The fowl has long been the centerpiece of the traditional American Thanksgiving meal, but contrary to tradition, turkey may not have been part of the 1621 feast at Plymouth Colony. Descriptions of ...

The first three-day harvest celebration held in Plymouth Colony, which is found in modern day Massachusetts, in 1621 is thought to be the first American Thanksgiving, according to Dennis Zotigh in ...

There weren’t any cranberry bogs in the immediate area of the Plymouth Colony, however, so the first Thanksgiving may have lacked the fruit—in sauce form or otherwise. Potatoes are native to ...

One of the most well-known and one of the earliest Thanksgiving feasts was that of the Pilgrims at the Plymouth Colony on Nov. 22, 1621. It had been a difficult year for the English settlers who ...