The Thanksgiving story deeply rooted in America’s school curriculum frames the Pilgrims as the main characters and reduces the Wampanoag Indians to supporting roles. It also erases a monumentally sad ...

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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 ...

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Mourning in America -- The Wampanoags' old world -- Danger on the horizon -- Golgotha -- Reaching out to strangers -- Ousamequin's power play -- A great man and a little child -- Ungrateful -- Ruining ...

Tradition says that Thanksgiving as we know it grew out of a celebration 400 years ago. English settlers in Massachusetts suffered a brutal winter. About half of them died. The rest celebrated their ...

As Thanksgiving approaches, and Americans prepare to stuff themselves full of turkey and pumpkin pie, it's important to know the history behind the annual fall holiday. Especially because the ...

For over a century, growing recognition of the historical inaccuracies and blatant cultural misrepresentations embedded in the traditional narrative of American Thanksgiving — which often gloss over ...

Thanksgiving is when I am most grateful for the good fortune one of my forebears experienced on his journey from England to Patuxet, some 400 years ago. My ancestor, the pilgrim John Howland, like the ...

As Thanksgiving approaches, and Americans prepare to stuff themselves full of turkey and pumpkin pie, it's important to know the history behind the annual fall holiday. Especially because the ...