The story of the first Thanksgiving has been thoroughly mythologized, and concrete facts from the day are limited. Almost all the information historians have about the event comes from a letter ...

The Pilgrims would most likely consider their sober 1623 day of prayer the first actual Thanksgiving, according to the History of Massachusetts Blog. Others pinpoint 1637 as the true origin of ...

The story of that first Thanksgiving traveled back to England ... when people were learning the stories of the Pilgrims,” said Andy Masich, president and CEO of the Senator John Heinz History ...

Historians don’t know exactly which day the "first Thanksgiving" between the Pilgrims and Native Americans fell on — and it actually happened in October, not November, according to the Farmer ...

The first Thanksgiving was observed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1621. A good autumn harvest led the Pilgrims to hold a feast to give thanks that lasted for three days. On October 3, 1789 ...

England must have been comfortable — and so was Holland, the separatists’ first place of refuge. Both were wealthy countries, maybe even too wealthy for the pilgrims. William Bradford bemoaned ...