Paula Peters remembers learning about the pilgrims' arrival in North America in elementary school, the backstory behind Thanksgiving Day. As the teacher explained how "friendly Indians" came to help ...

Every November, numerous articles recount the arrival of 17th-century English Pilgrims and Puritans and their quest for religious freedom. Stories are told about the founding of Massachusetts Bay ...

Neither the pious and precision-minded Virginians of the Church of England in 1619 at Berkeley Plantation, nor their early Puritan cousins in 1621 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, created our national ...

Kim Busch took a quick poll of her fifth-grade students at Big Sky Elementary about what jumps to mind when they think about Thanksgiving. “Most of my kids didn’t focus on 'Pilgrims and Indians,'” she ...

WALPOLE, N.H. -- Walpole Village School students got a special treat Tuesday as they celebrated Thanksgiving early, feasting like they were the first settlers from the Mayflower. "It's all about being ...

It wasn't a meal between Native Americans and the Pilgrims in 1621 that kicked off the tradition of Thanksgiving. (Image courtesy of Getty Images) You may have some misconceptions about "the first ...

Pilgrims and Native Americans are depicted gathering to share a meal in the artwork "The First Thanksgiving 1621," by J.L.G.

For the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts, a three-day feast in the autumn of 1621 was a thanksgiving for a successful harvest. The Wampanoag Indians, who had taught the pilgrims how to plant crops ...

A sketch from 1877 illustrating the landing of the Pilgrims, by artist Albert Bobbett. The Print Collector/Hulton Archives via Getty Images Every November, numerous articles recount the arrival of ...

Every November, articles recount the arrival of 17th century English Pilgrims and Puritans and their quest for religious freedom. Stories are told about the founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony and ...

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