Thanksgiving is celebrated with traditional feasts, but it also carries a controversial history tied to colonization and the ...

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into ...

The University of Iowa boasts the third largest culinary book collection in the country. It began in the '90s with a gift ...

While the Day of Mourning acknowledges the historical injustices and mourns the loss of our ancestors, it is also a ...

WGN Radio’s Dave Plier and Dave Schwan share the history of the very first Thanksgiving and the traditions that have developed over the years.

When Mashpee Wampanoag author Danielle Greendeer started looking around for children’s books on Thanksgiving to share with ...

According to the Library of Congress, a similar feast of gratitude took place in May 1541 in what is now Texas.

George Washington,” a 1863 engraving after a painting by Alonzo Chappel, measures 7 3/8 inches by 5 3/8 inches, from ...

This Thanksgiving, as we gather around our tables, let us give thanks for the men and women who dared to dream, who risked ...

The American Puritans of the 1630s and beyond were more ardent, and nervous about salvation, than the Pilgrims of the 1620s.

The annual American holiday called Thanksgiving formally began with a 1863 proclamation from Abraham Lincoln declaring the ...

Want your Thanksgiving to bring people closer together? Ask these three questions to bridge the great divides of our time.