March 26 -- After more than a century, the General Court, or Legislature, has been petitioned to settle a question of historical accuracy, and close a contest as to whether the Pilgrims of New ...

In the early 1900s, the Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association built ... As a crowd gathered, Faunce explained that this was the landing point for the original settlers, and they should respect ...

MAKKAH, Saudi Arabia, June 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Saudi Arabia has deployed over 50,000 health workers and introduced ...

(RNS) — Historians are well aware that debates about the past are inseparable from debates about the present. This year, perhaps like no recent Thanksgiving, Christians in the United States are ...

(See also: National Geographic Kids: First Thanksgiving.) An engraving depicts the Mayflower pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock in 1620. In reality, the pilgrims never wrote of any such rock.

In fact, everything you think you know — from the Pilgrims landing on Plymouth Rock to turkey making you tired — may be wrong. Read on for some surprising Thanksgiving truths. Think you know ...

And of the two first-hand accounts of the Plymouth landing, neither mention the famed rock. “There are no contemporary references to the Pilgrims' landing on a rock at Plymouth. There are two ...