Thanksgiving is a federal holiday in the United States. The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony, in what is today the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, celebrated the original Thanksgiving after their first ...

America has this image of the early settlers of the Plymouth Colony looking a certain way. The Pilgrims were European and distinctly fair in appearance. However, our notions of what was or might have ...

In 1630 William Bradford (1590-1657), who had arrived at the Wampanoag community at Patuxet a decade earlier, began to write a history of Plymouth. It was the first colony the English managed to plant ...

The story of how the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock abandoned the common labor system and embraced private ownership is well known ...

Almost 400 years after the Pilgrims celebrated their first Thanksgiving, archaeologists have unearthed evidence of the original 1620 settlement in Plymouth, Mass. Researchers from UMass Boston’s ...

Plymouth is a Michigan city connected by name to a much-celebrated part of the history of our nation. Its first settlers arrived in 1825, some 12 years before Michigan became a state and more than 200 ...

Was one of the Plymouth Colony settlers a black man? The search for a black Pilgrim began decades ago. Then, in 1981, historians announced with great fanfare that they had found enough evidence that ...

A new study touches on many factors that shaped life in Plymouth Colony. But the most important one gets lost in the laundry list. But how well do we know this group that the 19th century would ...

Tim Durocher ended his high school football career with three touchdowns in Plymouth South’s Thanksgiving win at Fenway Park over Plymouth South.