Nine in 10 Americans gather around a table to share food on Thanksgiving. At this polarizing moment, anything that promises to bring Americans together warrants our attention. But as a historian of ...

Every November, numerous articles recount the arrival of 17th-century English Pilgrims and Puritans and their quest for religious freedom. Stories are told about the founding of Massachusetts Bay ...

I like to think of the men in the first part of this story as just a bunch of dudes, just a bunch of dudes doing dude things. Someone has an idea (probably while drinking). The year is 1774. It is the ...

Ask someone in the United States to name five events important to the country’s foundation and there’s a good chance they’ll mention the Pilgrims. That’s what researchers found a few years ago when ...

The Wampanoag are a Native American tribe that has inhabited present day Massachusetts and Eastern Rhode Island for over 10,000 years. The Wampanoag did eventually help the Pilgrims, but it was a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Image: ‘The First Thanksgiving, 1621,’ by Jean L. G. Ferris. Library of Congress) Nine in 10 Americans gather around a table to ...