WILLIAMSBURG — Jamestown Settlement and the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown are inviting the public to celebrate the ...

Most people know that part of the reason why the first Thanksgiving was celebrated because the first winter in Plymouth did a ...

Some parishioners morphed into willing Protestants; defiant Catholics – recusants – refused to attend services; other ...

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

As Americans celebrate Thanksgiving this year, many believe the first thanksgiving was held in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in ...

November 27 is Thanksgiving Day in the United States. It is a time when Americans give thanks for freedom and other blessings ...

Thomas Jefferson is the only president who declined to endorse the tradition of Thanksgiving. For him, it was a question of ...

Much of the turkey's early history is shrouded in uncertainty, historians and etymologists say — which is particularly true ...

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

We have a national holiday that never originated among the group with whom it is associated, to commemorate a founding based upon principles of religious freedom that did not exist and sealed by a ...

This column was written by the MDJ’s late editorial page columnist, Joe Kirby. It has since become a tradition to publish it ...