When the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag shared the first Thanksgiving in 1621, sweet potatoes, apple pie, and turkey were missing from the table.

The traditional "first Thanksgiving" story taught in American schools tends to erase the true history between the Wampanoag tribe and the Pilgrims.

If you pictured the Pilgrims drinking beer at the first Thanksgiving, think again. While they drank in general, they likely didn't imbibe at the historic meal.

Thanksgiving Day is unique to America. But the same is true for other holidays, the Fourth of July, for example. On the Fourth we celebrate independence as a new nation was formed. On Thanksgiving Day ...

When I was a little kid last century, almost mid-century, my sisters and I always put on a little puppet show at the family Thanksgiving meal at my grandma’s. It was the standard “Pilgrims ...

Thanksgiving is too big a holiday to get dethroned, at least any time soon, but it’s worth sticking up for the Pilgrims now accused of myriad sins.

We are accustomed to thinking of the Pilgrims at Plymouth and the neighboring Wampanoag tribe of Massachusetts as the first to celebrate Thanksgiving, but some scholars say that isn’t accurate ...

Thanksgiving Was Born From America’s Struggles The history of the Pilgrims, the early Republic and the Civil War shaped a holiday that calls for gratitude in the face of challenges.

A Virginia politician, the late John J. Wicker, contacted Kennedy, taking issue with his 1962 Thanksgiving Proclamation that gave credit to the Pilgrims of Massachusetts for the initial Thanksgiving.