Today’s traditional Thanksgiving dinner includes turkey ... harvest celebration shared by the Pilgrims and Wampanoag at Plymouth Colony in 1621. Edward Winslow, an English leader who attended ...

The story of the first Thanksgiving has been thoroughly ... the event comes from a letter written by Plymouth Colony leader Edward Winslow in December 1621. He wrote of a harvest feast the ...

To the editor: Seemingly every year we get an article like this, about how the “first Thanksgiving” that took place in the Plymouth colony in 1621 was really the forerunner of European cruelty ...

The fowl has long been the centerpiece of the traditional American Thanksgiving meal, but contrary to tradition, turkey may not have been part of the 1621 feast at Plymouth Colony. Descriptions of ...

When it comes to Thanksgiving, most Americans are used ... to both the English and the native people of 1621 Plymouth colony. What's more American than apple pie? And actually I would contend ...

Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving." Myth: The Pilgrims came to the New World seeking religious freedom. The group we most often associate with the Pilgrims — the Puritan ...

One of the most well-known and one of the earliest Thanksgiving feasts was that of the Pilgrims at the Plymouth Colony on Nov. 22, 1621. It had been a difficult year for the English settlers who ...