Ever wonder where all the wild turkeys came from on Cape Cod? Surprisingly, it's a somewhat recent fowl development.

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

Late in the afternoon one day, I saw a white sedan stop by my mailbox on the other side of the road with its blinker on as ...

"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 ...

D’Aires Gadson, 28, was charged in Jackson County court Tuesday with second-degree murder in the death of William Bradford on Oct. 3. He was also charged with armed criminal action and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...