If you had to pick the five most important rocks in the world, in no particular order, the list might look something like this: the Rosetta Stone, which helped archaeologists decipher hieroglyphs; the ...

Following Columbus sailing the ocean blue in 1492, the Europeans set their sights on the New World and what would become the ...

We all learned the story of Thanksgiving as kids. We were taught that the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620 and were ...

Did the Pilgrims really land at Plymouth Rock? Slade Labadie Dixon, New Mexico It’s hard to be certain. According to oral tradition, the Mayflower Pilgrims landed near the landmark rock in 1620—but ...

Plymouth Rock is likely not where the Pilgrims landed for the first time. But it doesn't make the destination any less ...

For many, Thanksgiving brings to mind images of Plymouth Rock, the pilgrims, and traditional dishes like oven-roasted turkey and pumpkin pie. But what if I told you that the very first Thanksgiving ...

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 ...

IN his latest historical work, in which there is, perhaps, more learning to the page than is often crowded into a single volume, Dr. Freeman says that “in the case of the smaller dates, those which do ...

It’s too bad that the incoming neo-communist mayors of New York City and Seattle don’t know the real story of Thanksgiving ...