In this strange year of the coronavirus Thanksgiving — when the confirmed toll of COVID-19 in the U.S. totals more than 12.7 million people infected and more than 262,000 killed — we can learn ...

Lincoln’s first Thanksgiving Day didn't mention Pilgrims. The first national Thanksgiving Day did not invoke the Pilgrims at all. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln declared a Thanksgiving Day ...

The Pilgrims have a dual reputation on this front. They are sometimes made out to be beer-mad drunkards, so desperate for their beloved suds that the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts instead of ...

Webster delivered a speech to honor these Pilgrims on the 200th anniversary of the Mayflower’s arrival. Calvin Coolidge, then-governor of Massachusetts and president-elect, delivered an address ...

The pilgrim heart is known by the quality of thanksgiving. But when the Lord returns, will He yet find their like in the land?” Only we can answer that question.

At the time he met the Pilgrims, Squanto was already one of few surviving Patuxets (one of the bands in the Wampanoag confederation). The tribes' small numbers would have made it difficult to ...

Wheat Rolls. The Pilgrims had no wheat flour for baking traditional bread rolls in 1621. Instead, the first Thanksgiving featured Wampanoag corn bread.

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 ...

Read more: What Thanksgiving Means Today to the Native American Tribe That Fed the Pilgrims Her menu is based on a simple concept: “the food I grew up with,” she says. She cooks what’s local ...

Lincoln’s first Thanksgiving Day didn't mention Pilgrims. The first national Thanksgiving Day did not invoke the Pilgrims at all. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln declared a Thanksgiving Day ...

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