In 1630 William Bradford (1590-1657), who had arrived at the Wampanoag community at Patuxet a decade earlier, began to write a history of Plymouth. It was the first colony the English managed to plant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Americans will gather around Thanksgiving feasts on Thursday, recalling the first such gathering in Plymouth some 400 years ago.

Misconceptions about "the first Thanksgiving" in America have long run rampant. The fairytale-like story of Pilgrims and Native Americans supposedly breaking bread together is a misleading version of ...

If you don’t know the story of Merrymount, the long-ago, mostly-forgotten colony founded in parallel with — and in rivalry to — the Plymouth Colony, way back in 1627, hang on to tricorn your hat.

We have much to learn from the first Thanksgiving. To do so we should strip away some of the 19th century myths of America's favorite holiday. There it is with memory-filled tradition, plenty of ...