Thanksgiving in the US is traditionally a time for family and food. American schoolchildren typically learn that the tradition dates back to the Pilgrims, who helped establish Plymouth Colony in ...
The Pilgrims found an empty village - a graveyard - known as Patuxet and set up Plymouth Colony. The village where tribe Wampanoag of Patuxet lived was left empty due to them being killed by an ...
The earliest known American sampler was made by Loara Standish of the Plymouth Colony about 1645. By the 1700s, samplers depicting alphabets and numerals were worked by young women to learn the basic ...
Almost all the information historians have about the event comes from a letter written by Plymouth Colony leader Edward Winslow in December 1621. He wrote of a harvest feast the Pilgrims shared ...