Thanksgiving is a federal holiday in the United States. The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony, in what is today the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, celebrated the original Thanksgiving after their first ...
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 ...
Mourning in America -- The Wampanoags' old world -- Danger on the horizon -- Golgotha -- Reaching out to strangers -- Ousamequin's power play -- A great man and a little child -- Ungrateful -- Ruining ...
America has this image of the early settlers of the Plymouth Colony looking a certain way. The Pilgrims were European and distinctly fair in appearance. However, our notions of what was or might have ...
Was one of the Plymouth Colony settlers a black man? The search for a black Pilgrim began decades ago. Then, in 1981, historians announced with great fanfare that they had found enough evidence that ...
A new study touches on many factors that shaped life in Plymouth Colony. But the most important one gets lost in the laundry list. But how well do we know this group that the 19th century would ...