Paula Peters remembers learning about the pilgrims' arrival in North America in elementary school, the backstory behind Thanksgiving Day. As the teacher explained how "friendly Indians" came to help ...

As Americans gather for Thanksgiving, they celebrate the legacy of the Pilgrims’ success. Lost in the holiday’s mythology are the travails endured by passengers on the Mayflower — a tiny, rickety ship ...

The traditional story of Thanksgiving, and by extension the Pilgrims — the one repeated in school history books and given the Peanuts treatment in "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" — doesn’t start in ...

As she prepares for Thanksgiving each year, Betsy Slagle thinks about an ancestor: Francis Cooke, who arrived in Massachusetts with fellow Pilgrims on the Mayflower in 1620. Thirteen generations later ...

Part I was featured in the December 2020 issue. Go to saddlebagnotes.com to check out. Final arrangements were made, and two ships were acquired—the Mayflower and the Speedwell. The Mayflower and ...

Their treatment of Native populations appears hypocritical. But evangelism and conquest furthered the same underlying mission. In 1623, former Mayflower passenger Edward Winslow rushed west from ...

1620, Pilgrim leader William Bradford, later the Governor of Plymouth Colony, reading the Mayflower Compact on board the Mayflower off the coast of what became known as Massachusetts. (Photo by ...