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." ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

According to Texas A&M University, pilgrims at their first thanksgiving did not eat turkey. Historians say that the menu included in the first event included “fowle” which refer to a number of ...