And according to the real history of Thanksgiving in America ... Hale was so taken with the story of that first Thanksgiving that she lobbied five U.S. presidents to make it a federal holiday.

Historian Kenneth C. Davis, the bestselling author of "Don't Know Much About History" and "The World in Books," joined "CBS Mornings Plus" to discuss the history behind Thanksgiving and some of ...

Especially because the traditional "first Thanksgiving" story taught in schools tends to erase the true history, with children dressed up as "Pilgrims" and historically inaccurate "Indians." ...

Modern day Thanksgiving may be a celebration of people coming together, but that's not the whole story when it comes to the history of the day.

The tradition has been inherited from the first Thanksgiving feast that had a menu of corn, shellfish, cornmeal, beans, nuts, dried berries, pumpkin, and, yes, turkey. The story behind this is ...

In our cynical age, the wisdom embodied in the story of the First Thanksgiving ... the Wampanoag sit at every American’s Thanksgiving table. This history, and more, is worthy of our remembrance ...

grasp the concept of the true history about Thanksgiving," and when her daughter went to school and told her peers and teacher, they were open to hearing a broader story, one that Indigenous ...