America’s romance with Puritan New England always had more to do with how Americans wanted to remember the nation’s founding than with its real importance to the country’s evolution. Four hundred ...

Editor’s note: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Every November, numerous articles recount the arrival of 17th-century ...

Though the Plymouth colonists held the first-ever Thanksgiving with the Wampanoag natives -- an enduring symbol of the American spirit -- they are now disparaged. Their descendants are livid. Getty ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This autumn marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of a hardy band of English religious dissenters at the Wampanoag town of ...

The Pilgrims are among the early heroes of American history, celebrated every Thanksgiving for their perseverance in the New World against great odds. To Christian conservatives, they are role models ...

Thanksgiving is really the holiday that made the other American holidays possible. Were it not for the Pilgrims having courage, absolute faith in their cause and calling, and the willingness to ...

Before the Mayflower arrived in 1620, thousands of indigenous nations lived on the northeast coast of North America. The pilgrims aboard the Mayflower arrived in the territory of the Wampanoag Nation.

Jane Borden's " Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America " develops a simple thesis: The English Pilgrims who famously landed at Plymouth Rock were essentially a doomsday cult — even if ...

Historian William J. Federer recently sat down with The Washington Times’ Higher Ground to highlight the truth behind the people who graced that first Thanksgiving table and why their story is one ...

Norman Rockwell’s painting “Freedom From Want” is perhaps the most famous artistic depiction of an American Thanksgiving, showing a family joyfully gathered round an enormous turkey. For Rockwell, the ...

(The Conversation) — 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 ...

Conservatives who want to emphasize America's Christian roots embrace the story of the Pilgrims and the Mayflower Compact. But some historians say... Reconsidering The Pilgrims, Piety And America's ...