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The story of the Pilgrims' feast — the one behind all those elementary school plays and corny cartoon specials — is based on an actual meal that English settlers shared with the Wampanoag ...

The narrative about the history of Thanksgiving is built on myths about the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag and their relationship. Here's the real story.

There was no turkey at the first Thanksgiving meal, but there likely was plenty of waterfowl, venison and other food for the European settlers and their Wampanoag neighbors to feast on. But the ...

This Thanksgiving will be the 402nd in our history, counting back to when the Pilgrims, near the end of their first full year in the New World, shared a three-day feast with the Wampanoag Indians ...

The Pilgrims first arrived in Plymouth in 1620 but they hadn't brought enough food. Half of the colony died during the winter from 1620 to 1621, as it was too late in the year to plant crops.

Lincoln’s first Thanksgiving Day didn't mention Pilgrims The first national Thanksgiving Day did not invoke the Pilgrims at all. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln declared a Thanksgiving Day on ...