Long after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1621 and celebrated a successful harvest with a three-day gathering that ...
Why did the Pilgrims leave their old lives behind, to settle a strange alien land?
A cargo hold, just 5 feet tall and divided up with canvas - this is what served as the living quarters for the 102 passengers ...
What role did religion play in the genesis of the US? Rejected in their homeland, how did English Puritans become the ...
The third Thursday of November is the National Day of Mourning for some Indigenous peoples. They are fighting for ecological ...
A town in Worcestershire has held a special day to celebrate a local man who made history as one of the pilgrim fathers.
This Thanksgiving week, many of us have enjoyed time off, time with family, good food, cooler weather, football, shopping — ...
This Thanksgiving, as we gather around our tables, let us give thanks for the men and women who dared to dream, who risked ...
After all, the holiday commemorates the national lore of the Mayflower pilgrims, who escaped religious persecution and poverty in England to create new lives in the colonies. Are you an American ...
Pilgrims arose from the English Puritan movement that originated in the 1570s. Puritans wanted the English Protestant ...
“Ha!” says a Florida group, asserting the very, very first Thanksgiving happened in 1565 when the Spanish settlers of St.