The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution. They left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas.

Locals were delighted as the Mayflower II, a full-scale replica of the ship that carried the Pilgrims from England to ...

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 ...

We all learned the story of Thanksgiving as kids. We were taught that the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620 and were ...

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

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 ...

Moving to a new area is always challenging. Moving to a whole different part of the world as the weather turns toward winter ...

A crewless robotic boat retracing the 1620 sea voyage of the Mayflower has landed near Plymouth Rock. The sleek Mayflower Autonomous Ship met with an escort boat as it approached the Massachusetts ...

Think about the Pilgrims. The Separatists originally fled England to avoid religious persecution. Years later, they decided to leave the Netherlands for the New World. One of their ships, the ...

This Thanksgiving, amid these contentious times, it would serve us well to reflect on the principles the Pilgrims provided ...

Before you trot out the turkey for the big feast, how much do you know about the original Thanksgiving that began the holiday ...