(The Conversation) — 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. (The Conversation) — Nine ...

This Thanksgiving will be the 402nd in our history, counting back to when the Pilgrims, near the end of their first full year in the New World, shared a three-day feast with the Wampanoag Indians. In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sketch from 1877 illustrating the landing of the Pilgrims, by artist Albert Bobbett. The Print Collector/Hulton Archives via ...

But those who thought about going to New England, especially the Pilgrims who were kindred souls of Bradford, believed that there were higher rewards to be reaped. Bradford and the other Puritans who ...

Plymouth, MA, USA - View of the historic Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, MA. It’s too bad that the incoming neo-communist mayors of New York City and Seattle don’t know the real story of Thanksgiving and ...

But the Pilgrims were better equipped to survive than they let on. Peter C. Mancall, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts ...

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 ...