Though the Plymouth colonists held the first-ever Thanksgiving with the Wampanoag natives -- an enduring symbol of the American spirit -- they are now disparaged. Their descendants are livid. Getty ...

Most of us were introduced to the Pilgrims and their ship, Mayflower, as part of a fall remembrance of the ‘First Thanksgiving” and that story certainly is inspirational and somewhat true. That first ...

We are marking a great American anniversary this month. In November 1620 a battered old ship called the Mayflower arrived in the waters off Cape Cod in what is now the state of Massachusetts. The ...

(RNS) — Historians are well aware that debates about the past are inseparable from debates about the present. This year, perhaps like no recent Thanksgiving, Christians in the United States are ...

When I told my friend Fred I was writing about the Pilgrims, he said he felt sorry for me because, really, what’s left to say? The shopworn attenuation of their story — the Mayflower, the funny hats, ...

One month into the voyage of the Mayflower, John Howland, an indentured servant from Huntingtonshire, could bear the smells and the damp and the darkness below deck no more. He went upstairs for some ...