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 ...

(The Center Square) – As Americans celebrate Thanksgiving this year, many believe the first thanksgiving was held in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1621. However, the first Thanksgiving celebration was ...

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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 ...

‘The First Thanksgiving, 1621,’ an oil-on-canvas painting created by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris between 1912 and 1915. In addition to other historical inaccuracies in this romanticized take (the clothing ...