Thanksgiving is a federal holiday in the United States. The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony, in what is today the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, celebrated the original Thanksgiving after their first ...

Pop culture has given us a distorted picture of the religious separatists who founded Plymouth Colony. Historian John Turner sets the record straight. Pilgrims have become a staple of American life ...

In 1630 William Bradford (1590-1657), who had arrived at the Wampanoag community at Patuxet a decade earlier, began to write a history of Plymouth. It was the first colony the English managed to plant ...

This wasn’t a party, an operational review or hackathon. The only item on the boss’s agenda that morning was to oversee a collective expression of gratitude, or as he termed it, “thanksgiving.” ...

A new study touches on many factors that shaped life in Plymouth Colony. But the most important one gets lost in the laundry list. This December marks 400 years since the Mayflower dropped anchor in ...

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 ...

America has this image of the early settlers of the Plymouth Colony looking a certain way. The Pilgrims were European and distinctly fair in appearance. However, our notions of what was or might have ...

When the Pilgrims landed on the shores of what is now Cape Cod in late November of 1620, they “fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven” for delivering them to a safe harbor. It had been a ...