The Wampanoag were the Native American tribe that joined the Pilgrims for the "First Thanksgiving," yet much of the common lore about that story is inaccurate. For example, the Wampanoag weren't ...

Ever since the ancient Romans decided to honor the agricultural goddess Flora with lewd spectacles in the Circus Maximus, the beginning of May has signaled the coming of spring, a time of revival ...

It was the beginning of another uncertain chapter of the Pilgrim story. With winter upon them, they had to build homes and ...

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 ...

But most aren’t told that native people likely outnumbered English colonists 2-to-1 at the harvest feast in 1621. Early on in school, we learn to equate Thanksgiving with a feast between Pilgrims and ...

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Native Americans in Massachusetts are calling for a boycott of a popular living history museum featuring Colonial reenactors portraying life in Plymouth, the famous English ...

As we approach Thanksgiving celebrations in the United States, I thought that it might be interesting to discuss a few animals and plants that might have been included on menus of the first ...

The Wampanoag are a Native American tribe that has inhabited present day Massachusetts and Eastern Rhode Island for over 10,000 years. Jenaya Perry, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, competes ...

The Wampanoag are a Native American tribe that has inhabited present day Massachusetts and Eastern Rhode Island for over 10,000 years. The Wampanoag did eventually help the Pilgrims, but it was a ...