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 ...

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Four centuries after white Europeans stepped off the Mayflower and onto America’s shores, some descendants of the colonists are wrestling with the complicated legacy of their ...

• On Sept. 16, 1620, the Mayflower sails from Plymouth, England, bound for Virginia with 102 passengers. However, stormy weather and navigational errors forced the Mayflower off course, and on Nov. 21 ...

Pop superstar Taylor Swift has an interesting link to the Pilgrims' arrival in Plymouth, Massachusetts, according to ...

BRATTLEBORO -- A few years ago a Newfane resident visited a small cemetery in Salem, Mass., to learn more about a man who stepped off the Mayflower in 1620 at the tender young age of 6, became a ...

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 ...

400 years ago, on November 11, 1620, the Mayflower anchored in what is today Provincetown Harbor. Some of this year's formal celebrations seek to put the native tribes and nations that the Pilgrims ...

To mark the 400th anniversary of the Plymouth Colony's first Thanksgiving feast, Northeast Florida Mayflower descendants earlier this month invited to dinner a Middle Eastern family that, like many on ...