This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Nine in 10 Americans gather around a table to share food on Thanksgiving. At this polarizing moment, anything that promises to bring Americans ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thanksgiving has been a celebrated holiday since the first Thanksgiving in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621. However, the tradition ...

The holiday’s real roots lie in abolition, liberation, and anti-racism. Let’s reconnect to that legacy. Children eating Thanksgiving dinner in Harlem. It’s a good thing conservatives know nothing ...

This week, two new TV programs will present the story of an early-American Thanksgiving, but both National Geographic Channel’s four-hour “Saints & Strangers” (9 p.m. today and Monday) and PBS’s ...

Thanksgiving is almost upon us, and for history lovers, it's not just a time to eat until bursting. The history of the Thanksgiving holiday has been diluted and romanticized to make it more palatable, ...

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 ...

Thanksgiving has evolved since that first feast in 1621, and so has the way we think and write about it. The Tribune’s archives show the cultural evolution of Thanksgiving from religious to secular, a ...

DID YOU KNOW THAT THE FIRST RECORDED CELEBRATION OF A DAY OF THANKSGIVING IN THE COLONY OF SOUTH CAROLINA WAS ON OCTOBER 17, 1706, IN CHARLESTON. WEEKS AFTER MILITIA DEFEATED SPANISH AND FRENCH ...

Marylanders have been celebrating special days of thanksgiving since English settlers first arrived on local shores. The men and women of the Ark and the Dove, the ships that landed on St. Clement’s ...