Most everyone is familiar with the story of the “first” Thanksgiving with the pilgrims and the Indians, but I wonder how many ...
Why do Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving? The answer is rooted in history, tradition and a bit of 19th-century marketing.
Thanksgiving, the festival of gratitude and togetherness, has been celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November since 1941.
While we often emphasize the 1621 celebration in Plymouth Colony, the first documented Thanksgiving celebration by English colonists occurred in Virginia on Dec. 3, 1619.
When former Vice President Dick Cheney’s funeral is held at the Washington National Cathedral, he will join a bipartisan but ...
Laura Linney is among the huge A-list cast, but she’s not playing Giamatti’s wife Abigal Adams this time — Claire Danes is.
U.S. employers added a surprisingly solid 119,000 jobs in September, the government said, issuing a key economic report that ...