The roots of our uniquely American celebration of Thanksgiving are traced back to when the Pilgrims set sail for America on Sept. 6, 1620, and for two months, braved the Atlantic Ocean.  We remember ...

America’s early settlers weren’t a monolith, and their stories reveal deep contrasts that shaped the nation’s foundation.

It was the year 1621, and the Massachusetts Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast, ...

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

Soon, families across America will host their annual Thanksgiving meal. While we all enjoy stuffing our faces with popular Thanksgiving dishes, who wants to do all that cooking and cleaning?

The Pilgrims celebrated their first harvest in 1621, likely between Sept. 21 and Nov. 11, with 50 Mayflower passengers and 90 Native Americans. This feast, not initially identified as Thanksgiving, ...

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

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

Almost 170 years after the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag tribe feasted together for the first unofficial Thanksgiving in 1621, the U.S. government decided to make it official. So on October 3 ...

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 ...