The entire Thanksgiving origin story comes from the one passage in "Mourt's Relation." Winslow's account indicates that the Wampanoags vastly outnumbered the Pilgrims. Massasoit brought 90 men and ...

Especially because the traditional "first Thanksgiving" story taught in schools tends to erase the true history, with children dressed up as "Pilgrims" and historically inaccurate "Indians." ...

He wrote of a harvest feast the Pilgrims shared with the Wampanoag over three days in late autumn. The meal would have looked unfamiliar to people who associate Thanksgiving with green bean ...

The Thanksgiving story begins, of course, with the Pilgrims. The English Protestants who arrived at Provincetown in 1620 were obsessed with the Hebrew Bible, seeing themselves as another Israel ...

When the Mayflower pilgrims and the Wampanoag sat down for the first Thanksgiving in 1621, it wasn’t actually that big of a deal. Likely, it was just a routine English harvest celebration.