Longtime cultural educator Hope Flanagan (Seneca, Turtle Clan) says that, in teaching the true history of a holiday that represented the beginning of colonization for the Indigenous People of ...

BOSTON (AP) — A friendly feast shared by the plucky Pilgrims and their native neighbors? That's yesterday's Thanksgiving story. Students in many U.S. schools are now learning a more complex lesson ...

We are not fooled that everything was comfortable and convivial at that first Thanksgiving dinner in Massachusetts. For one thing, a lot of the story has probably been embellished in legend through ...

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Today, if you eat a nice meal, thank the Pilgrims. They made Thanksgiving possible. They left the Old World to escape religious persecution. They imagined a new society where everyone worked together ...

Instead of making Pilgrim hats, students are hearing what scholars call “hard history” — the more shameful aspects of the past. Susannah Remillard teaches her sixth-grade students at Cape Cod ...

BOSTON — A friendly feast shared by the plucky Pilgrims and their native neighbors? That’s yesterday’s Thanksgiving story. Students in many U.S. schools are now learning a more complex lesson that ...