Editors note: A version of this story originally was published Nov. 23, 2006, in The Arizona Republic: The real story of the first Thanksgiving has very little to do with turkey, friendly Pilgrims ...

The editorial cartoonist shows us the great scene that precedes Thanksgiving as it unfolds. The Mayflower anchors in a cove near Plymouth Rock, and there’s a small boat full of Pilgrims ...

The First Thanksgiving, 1621 by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, 1863-1930, artist. Published by the Foundation Press, Inc., c1932. Photomechanical print halftone, colour.

From the landing on Plymouth Rock to the harmonious feast with the native Wampanoags, the story about the Pilgrims — and by extension, the story of Thanksgiving — is rife with myth and inaccuracy.

When millions of American’s sit down for Thanksgiving dinner this month, they will retell the story of peaceable Pilgrims gathering with their Native American neighbors to enjoy the bounty of a ...

Erin Dionne: Yeah, no problem. I love telling this story. I like rocking people's world with it. You're not going to think about Thanksgiving again after you hear it.

The story of Thanksgiving is rooted with the Pilgrims landing on the shores of North America, but it became the holiday story as understood today two centuries later in a country divided by civil war.

OLD Jacob Newell sat despondent beside his sitting-room fire. Gray-haired and venerable, with a hundred hard lines, telling of the work of time and struggle and misfortune, furrowing his pale face ...

(But that is not a story for Thanksgiving.) Bradford makes it clear that these white refugees from abroad were treated well by their hosts. One of the other Pilgrims, Edward ...

From that 1621 festival the Pilgrim story evolved, with many difficulties. The custom of harvest time observations emerged as other colonies were placed, and into the 19th century the event ...