I would say Christmas doesn’t begin until the day after Thanksgiving. But for more and more people, the day after Halloween is a green light for all things Christmas. Mariah Carey is on full blast, ...

Since the historic menu is not actually the standard Thanksgiving menu, we want to know what your favorite side dishes are.

Thanksgiving, a cherished holiday for family and gratitude, began as a harvest festival in 1621 with Pilgrims and Wampanoag.

This time of year brings with it one of America’s most enduring stories — one we tell ourselves to feel better. The story of the “First Thanksgiving,” as many of us learned in school, is false in ...

There were wild turkeys in North America in the 1620s, so there could have been turkeys at the first harvest festival, but ...

Today, Thanksgiving celebrates personal and communal gratitude. Families and friends gather to share a meal, express their ...

This time of year brings with it one of America’s most enduring stories — one we tell ourselves to feel better. The story of the “First Thanksgiving,” as many of us learned in school, is false in ...

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This was the event that now marks the first American day of Thanksgiving, even though many Indigenous peoples had long had rituals that included giving thanks and other European settlers had ...

It’s Thanksgiving — that time of year when American kitchens become a source of mouth-watering aromas; the fragrance of ...

Goetze: While researching the historical and legendary 1621 Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving, I discovered interesting and somewhat contradictory material.

In some ways, Thanksgiving is a tradition that unites Americans. But the classic image of the Pilgrims obscures important ...