Scrooby Manor in Nottinghamshire is the birthplace of two of the Pilgrim Fathers, who fled England in the 1600s and sailed to ...

The Mayflower, a leaky 80-foot-long British cargo ship carrying 102 passengers who were determined to build a new society "for the glory of God," departed from Plymouth, England on this day in history ...

As you carve the turkey today and look around the table at your loved ones, there are important lessons you can teach both young and old about our American Thanksgiving holiday. When the Pilgrims ...

PLYMOUTH – British and American flags waved on the waterfront Monday as they did in the same date in 1957, as Plimoth Patuxet Museums celebrated the sapphire jubilee of Mayflower II’s arrival in ...

There is no evidence Plymouth Rock is the exact boulder where Pilgrims first disembarked the Mayflower in Plymouth in 1620, nor that it was found at sea level. The rock has also been moved several ...

The Lake County Genealogical Society invites those interested in exploring a potential relationship to the passengers of the Mayflower to a presentation and hands-on research April 10 at Morley ...

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 ...

New truths were revealed about the family of this Black Power movement leader. In a Feb. 21 episode of Finding Your Roots, civil rights activist Angela Davis discovered that she is descended from a ...

Just over four centuries ago, 102 men, women and children set sail on the Mayflower, a Virginia Company merchant ship from England bound for the New World. While the passengers had no idea what their ...