When the Pilgrims first celebrated Thanksgiving in 1621, their feast did not have turkey. Pilgrim chronicler Edward Winslow ...

Modern Thanksgiving dinners often feature turkey, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie. However, the original Thanksgiving feast ...

While the 1621 feast wasn’t called “Thanksgiving” at the time, it set the stage for a holiday that would become a cornerstone ...

As America and its families become more secular, Thanksgiving s Christian origins have been less prominent and forgotten ...

Traditional "first Thanksgiving" stories taught in schools tend to erase the true history, and the Native American ...

Why is Thanksgiving traditionally associated with turkey and other specific foods? We asked a history expert why we eat what ...

For the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts, a three-day feast in the autumn of 1621 was a thanksgiving for a successful ...

Hale's idea became reality on Oct. 3, 1863, when Lincoln issued a proclamation declaring the last Thursday of November to be ...

Every November, numerous articles recount the arrival of 17th-century English Pilgrims and Puritans and their quest for ...

Thanksgiving, with its associations of family, tradition and American history, is an important holiday for many people. And ...

When the first settlers arrived in Jamestown in April 1607 and raised a cross at Cape Henry, claiming the land for England, ...

In the larger cities, many residents in the late 1800s ate Thanksgiving dinner at a hotel restaurant. In 1876, San Bernardino ...