Pilgrims arose from the English Puritan movement that originated in the 1570s. Puritans wanted the English Protestant ...
The American Puritans of the 1630s and beyond were more ardent, and nervous about salvation, than the Pilgrims of the 1620s.
For the Pilgrims, what we today know as Thanksgiving was not a feast; rather, it was a spiritual devotion. Thanksgiving was a ...
Every November, articles recount the arrival of 17th century English Pilgrims and Puritans and their quest for religious ...
A rare 1652 Massachusetts threepence, one of the first coins minted in colonial America, has shattered auction records, sold ...
Lakota historian Nick Estes talks about the violent origins of Thanksgiving and his book Our History Is the Future. “This ...
A sachem of the Narragansett tribe, Quaiapen had led her people through a tumultuous winter and spring.