It is clear to me and, maybe to you, that the first Thanksgiving was not a time to buy a turkey or fix dressing or even invite families to the ...

Instead of famine, now God gave them plenty,” their leader, Governor William Bradford, would later write in “Of Plymouth ...

One suspects the name of William Bradford is either not known at all or, if known, not well known by Americans.

Larger than chickens, ducks and geese, they could provide considerable meat for a crowd. Yet the “original” celebration in ...

Give thanks in any way you prefer, but taking a day to enjoy the company of family and friends is a tradition that we can all ...

From ‘turkey trot’ to ‘going cold turkey,’ the centerpiece to many Thanksgiving dinners has lent its name to many things. But ...

Gratitude to the Almighty is the theme of Thanksgiving and has been ever since the Pilgrims of Plymouth brought in their ...

The colonists who celebrated their arrival on the shores were killed in a bloody uprising of Native Americans across the ...

I'm Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. The first settlers in Plymouth Colony planted mostly barley and peas with seed ...

In the many celebrations, reflections and histories of Plymouth colony, the settlement’s gender dynamics often get short ...

No one knows quite what to do with Thanksgiving since most of what we think of as “tradition” is bogus, former Historic ...

Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving, when Wampanoag peoples shared a harvest meal with ...