It was held by the English Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony and members of the Wampanoag Nation. The gathering was to celebrate the Pilgrims’ first successful corn harvest in the “New World,” which was ...

The emphasis on the Pilgrims’ feast narrowed conceptions of who belongs in America, excluding groups like Native Americans, Catholics & Jews.

Winslow, who was at the first Thanksgiving celebration in 1621 and is the only person we know to have written about it, sent the following letter to a friend. In 1622, this letter was printed in a ...

Following Columbus sailing the ocean blue in 1492, the Europeans set their sights on the New World and what would become the United States. The Spanish arrived in Florida and traveled as far as ...

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As Americans celebrate Thanksgiving this year, many believe the first thanksgiving was held in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1621. However, the first Thanksgiving celebration was held two decades ...

In the autumn of 1621, the pilgrims of the nascent Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, along with scores of Native Americans, gathered to celebrate a successful harvest with a feast that was to be ...

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 ...

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. Nine in 10 Americans gather around a table to ...