He wrote of a harvest feast the Pilgrims shared with the Wampanoag over three days in late autumn. The meal would have looked unfamiliar to people who associate Thanksgiving with green bean ...

Thanksgiving in the US is traditionally a time for family and food. American schoolchildren typically learn that the tradition dates back to the Pilgrims, who helped establish Plymouth Colony in ...

Fewer workers get Presidents Day as a holiday compared to days like Christmas and Thanksgiving. One economist suggests why it ...

The Trump Administration Should Confront It The pilgrims are a little complicated for us moderns. They were dissidents and nonconformists and in some sense civil libertarians, and at the same time ...

On Thursday our country will celebrate Thanksgiving. When I think of Thanksgiving, I think of it as a time when we connect with our immediate and extended families. It is a time of feasting on ...

The first Thanksgiving was observed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1621. A good autumn harvest led the Pilgrims to hold a feast to give thanks that lasted for three days. On October 3, 1789 ...