T he first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the English Pilgrims and the Wampanoag tribe sometime between late September and early November 1621. A letter written by Pilgrim Edward Winslow provides ...

Instead, the first Thanksgiving featured Wampanoag corn bread. Macaroni and Cheese This southern Thanksgiving staple wasn’t served when the Puritans and the Wampanoag sat down for dinner in 1621.

“For the Pilgrims, the first day that they designated as a ‘thanksgiving’ was in July of 1623, when they called the thanksgiving in thanks for a rainfall that had saved their harvest," says ...

The Thanksgiving traditions started by the Pilgrims in Massachusetts in 1621 are what most Americans follow. But history shows a celebration to give thanks occurred in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619.

According to Texas A&M University, pilgrims at their first thanksgiving did not eat turkey.Historians say that the menu included in the first event included “fowle” which refer to a number of ...

When the Pilgrims first celebrated Thanksgiving in 1621, their feast did not have turkey. Pilgrim chronicler Edward Winslow recorded that they ate some type of wild foul and deer brought by the ...

If you pictured the Pilgrims drinking beer at the first Thanksgiving, think again. While they drank in general, they likely didn't imbibe at the historic meal.

When the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag shared the first Thanksgiving in 1621, sweet potatoes, apple pie, and turkey were missing from the table.

We are accustomed to thinking of the Pilgrims at Plymouth and the neighboring Wampanoag tribe of Massachusetts as the first to celebrate Thanksgiving, but some scholars say that isn’t accurate ...