2021 1:00 p.m. There is a lot of speculation and misinformation about the menu of the first Thanksgiving dinner, held in 1621 at Plymouth Colony in what is now Massachusetts. Was turkey on the table?

In what has most certainly been one of the most unusual years in memory, the nation will mark Thanksgiving once again on this fourth Thursday in November. It is part of a long tradition that has ...

November is Native American Heritage Month — a time to celebrate the rich and diverse cultures, traditions and histories, and ...

The Pilgrims celebrated a harvest festival with their Native American neighbors in 1621 what we often call ... American history as leaders of the colony at Plymouth, Massachusetts, the first ...

The first harvest festival of the Plymouth colony settlers took place in 1621, and Thanksgiving commemorates that event. It is a time when families and friends gather to feast, express gratitude ...

David J. Silverman is the author of This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving. He is a professor at George Washington University ...