Christmas celebrates the birth of Christ, which one might think would make it a hands-down joyous occasion. Nope. Christmas ...
The descendants of Ebenezer Clough, the master brick layer who built the Old North Church in 1723, will present the church ...
Pilgrims arose from the English Puritan movement that originated in the 1570s. Puritans wanted the English Protestant ...
Joy reigned, as recorded in the diaries of the Pilgrims.For over 150 years until 1789, various types of Thanksgiving services ...
Lakota historian Nick Estes talks about the violent origins of Thanksgiving and his book Our History Is the Future. “This ...
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 ...