For many, the story of Thanksgiving begins with a meal. For descendants, it begins with survival. “For 66 days, they went ...

This Thanksgiving marks 70 years since New Mexico’s Mayflower Society was founded by descendants of the ship’s 102 passengers ...

The traditional story of Thanksgiving, and by extension the Pilgrims — the one repeated in school history books and given the Peanuts treatment in "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" — doesn’t start in ...

Locals were delighted as the Mayflower II, a full-scale replica of the ship that carried the Pilgrims from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620, made its way down the Cape Cod Canal on December ...

The Mayflower, a leaky 80-foot-long British cargo ship carrying 102 passengers who were determined to build a new society "for the glory of God," departed from Plymouth, England on this day in history ...

As she prepares for Thanksgiving each year, Betsy Slagle thinks about an ancestor: Francis Cooke, who arrived in Massachusetts with fellow Pilgrims on the Mayflower in 1620. Thirteen generations later ...

The slightest breeze rustled through the open doors of All Saints' Church, a 600-year-old structure in Babworth, England. I shivered. It wasn't really cold and I don't believe in ghosts, but I could ...

Amazingly, there was a type of communism imposed on the Pilgrims, who settled Plymouth in December 1620, by those who lent them the money for the voyage of the Mayflower. And as always, it didn’t work ...

As he breathed the crisp sea air and contemplated surrendering to the gentle lull of azure waves that nearly rocked him to slumber, Yossel Gulden stood at the bow of The Mayflower, closed his eyes and ...

Did you know the Pilgrims started their life in America deeply in debt? There are lessons to be learned from their experience.