Editors note: A version of this story originally was published Nov. 23, 2006, in The Arizona Republic: The real story of the first Thanksgiving has very little to do with turkey, friendly Pilgrims ...

So there is a special significance to the choice of this locale for the filming of Saints & Strangers, the two-part movie about the real Thanksgiving story airing on Nov. 22 and 23 on the National ...

For starters, Pocahontas, a member of the Powhatan tribe, died in 1617, four years before the first Thanksgiving. And according to the real history of Thanksgiving in America, settlers were hardly ...

Editor's Note: This story first published in 2020. The traditional story of Thanksgiving, and by extension the Pilgrims — the one repeated in school history books and given the Peanuts treatment ...

The real history of Thanksgiving is far darker than a celebratory feast between English Pilgrims and the local Native Americans who helped them. ... The real story behind the holiday is so dark, ...

The Plymouth Thanksgiving of 1621 wasn't the first Settlers in Berkeley Hundred, in what is now Virginia, celebrated their arrival with a Thanksgiving as far back as 1619, according to National ...

Thanksgiving in the US is traditionally a time for family and food. American schoolchildren typically learn that the tradition dates back to the Pilgrims, who helped establish Plymouth Colony in 1620 ...