Fewer than 40 Pilgrims joined 65 nonbelievers, whom the Pilgrims dubbed “strangers,” in making the arduous journey to what ...

The Pilgrims were Separatists, believing that the church should be separate from the English crown. Their view was a more ...

So, Puritans and Pilgrims came out of the same religious culture of 1570s England. They diverged in the early 1600s, but ...

Fewer than 40 Pilgrims joined 65 nonbelievers, whom the Pilgrims dubbed “strangers,” in making the arduous journey to what would be called Plymouth Colony. Most Americans know that more than half of ...

Pilgrims arose from the English Puritan movement ... In between, Pilgrim separatists sailed to Plymouth, survived a terrible first winter and convened a robust harvest-time meal with Native ...

WASHINGTON — When we think of Thanksgiving, we often picture steaming plates of turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie. But the first Thanksgiving in 1621, shared between the ...

On that occasion the Pilgrims who had set out for the New World a year earlier were celebrating having had a successful harvest after the hardships of their voyage and the first winter in their ...

According to the "Observant Citizen," a columnist for the Boston Post, the Pilgrims in the winter of their first year were starving and faced the end of their project to colonize the new world ...