The emphasis on the Pilgrims’ feast narrowed conceptions of who belongs in America, excluding groups like Native Americans, Catholics & Jews.

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 an offering on this day of giving thanks, we brought a big platter of corrected information. You may have believed certain things about this holiday for way too long now, and we can’t have you look ...

In some ways, Thanksgiving is a tradition that unites Americans. But the classic image of the Pilgrims obscures important parts of the country’s story. Nine in 10 Americans gather around a table to ...

The assault by the Trump administration on honest history is hitting everyone,” A. S. Dillingham, a tribal member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and a historian at Arizona State University, says.

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 ...

Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of November every year. Pass a drumstick, along with these Turkey Day facts.

The white European settlers celebrated as the “Pilgrims” were, in fact, America’s first undocumented immigrants.

The untold story of how The Lyon ship from Dublin rescued Plymouth Colony with life-saving food in February 1621, helping create America's Thanksgiving tradition ...