BEAUFORT — The story of the first Thanksgiving in North America nearly perfectly embodies the truism that history is written by the victors. Representations of the “first” Thanksgiving are rife with ...

But most aren’t told that native people likely outnumbered English colonists 2-to-1 at the harvest feast in 1621. Early on in school, we learn to equate Thanksgiving with a feast between Pilgrims and ...

The Wampanoag are a Native American tribe that has inhabited present day Massachusetts and Eastern Rhode Island for over 10,000 years. The Wampanoag did eventually help the Pilgrims, but it was a ...

Thanksgiving is pre-political. It’s pre-republican. It’s pre-democratic. It predates independence and the Constitution. It is not, however, pre-American. There are documented cases in the New World of ...

Most of us will soon gather with friends and family to enjoy a Thanksgiving feast, but where did this tradition originate? Thanksgiving is Thursday, Nov. 27, and while we celebrate with festive ...