There was some debate in 1782 about selecting a national bird. The bald eagle was a symbol of strength, courage, freedom and ...

Beer played an essential role in the story of the Pilgrims who first arrived in North America, as did the Native Americans ...

"Squanto: A Native Odyssey" by Andrew Lipman, Yale Univ. Press, 264 pages, $28 All that most Americans likely know about Squanto they learned in kindergarten. He was the gentle, almost saintly ...

What you thought was eaten at the first Thanksgiving is probably historically inaccurate. The feast featured autumnal foods ...

He died on the 17th of May 1731 in the 79th year of his age He was born on 20th December 1652 in London, a son of William Bradford. He was educated at St Paul's School, Charterhouse and Cambridge.

According to our national story, in the fall of 1621, a year after the Mayflower landed at Plymouth, William Bradford ... which they brought to the plantation and bestowed on our governor ...

The Virginia Thanksgiving Festival at Berkeley Plantation takes place Sunday to celebrate and remember the first official ...

Most of what we know about early American settlers comes from the journal of William Bradford, the first governor of Plymouth ...

As a member of the Separatist movement within Puritanism, Bradford migrated to Holland ... Mourt's Relation Of Plymouth Plantation A Dialog Between Some Young Men & Sundry Ancient Men Plimoth ...

William Bradford Shockley clearly was one of the brightest scientists of the 20th century, yet he lived a life of noisy desperation. He was a modern hero taken from one of the ancient Greek ...

Carolyn Bryant, the daughter of a plantation manager and a nurse ... the men later sold their story for $4,000 to reporter William Bradford Huie. Two of their defense attorneys helped facilitate ...

Bradford got his start in journalism in 2013 as a freelance broadcaster for public radio and wrote for various online outlets. He graduated from California State University Fullerton in 2014 with ...