The story of the first Thanksgiving has been thoroughly mythologized, and concrete facts from the day are limited ... He wrote of a harvest feast the Pilgrims shared with the Wampanoag over ...

From the modern-day Tea Party to the protesters ... On this 400th anniversary, do the Pilgrim Fathers even merit all the fuss? Many depictions of the first Thanksgiving meal emphasise the role ...

The Pilgrims would most likely consider their sober 1623 day of prayer the first actual Thanksgiving ... of a series of brutal but dimly remembered early conflicts between Native Americans ...

Thanksgiving, a holiday rooted in healing ... enslavement or forced relocation by white European settlers. The Pilgrims did ...

A day of festivities will be held in a Worcestershire town to celebrate a man who made history as one of the Pilgrim Fathers ... for attending the first Thanksgiving Dinner in 1621.

On the last Thursday of each November, many people in the US celebrate Thanksgiving ... In 1621, the Mayflower pilgrims – early settlers from Britain – had a feast with the Native American ...

A good autumn harvest led the Pilgrims to hold a feast to give thanks that lasted for three days. On October 3, 1789, George Washington issued his Thanksgiving proclamation, designating “a day o ...