Nine in 10 Americans gather around a table to share food on Thanksgiving. At this polarizing moment, anything that promises to bring Americans together warrants our attention. But as a historian of ...

Pop culture has given us a distorted picture of the religious separatists who founded Plymouth Colony. Historian John Turner sets the record straight. Pilgrims have become a staple of American life ...

Thanksgiving is a federal holiday in the United States. The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony, in what is today the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, celebrated the original Thanksgiving after their first ...

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Native Americans in Massachusetts are calling for a boycott of a popular living history museum featuring Colonial reenactors portraying life in Plymouth, the famous English ...

A new study touches on many factors that shaped life in Plymouth Colony. But the most important one gets lost in the laundry list. This December marks 400 years since the Mayflower dropped anchor in ...

Plymouth, MA, USA - View of the historic Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, MA. It’s too bad that the incoming neo-communist mayors of New York City and Seattle don’t know the real story of Thanksgiving and ...

Was one of the Plymouth Colony settlers a black man? The search for a black Pilgrim began decades ago. Then, in 1981, historians announced with great fanfare that they had finally found enough ...

They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty, by John G. Turner (Yale University Press, 464 pp., $30) Superpowers need origin stories -- nations no less than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Image: ‘The First Thanksgiving, 1621,’ by Jean L. G. Ferris. Library of Congress) Nine in 10 Americans gather around a table to ...

(The Conversation) — In some ways, Thanksgiving is a tradition that unites Americans. But the classic image of the Pilgrims obscures important parts of the country’s story. (The Conversation) — Nine ...