William Bradford and Edward Winslow compiled a little tract to encourage the investors about the colony’s progress. Although a bit rosy in coloring, it relates what Cushman found. New Plymouth ...

One of the earliest and arguably most historically significant North American colonies was Plymouth Colony, founded in 1620 in what is now known as Plymouth, Massachusetts. As I've outlined in ...

Was one of the Plymouth Colony settlers a black man? The search for a black Pilgrim began decades ago. Then, in 1981, historians announced with great fanfare that they had finally found enough ...

But nobody knows exactly where the Plymouth colony was located. Now, Smithsonian magazine's online site reports, researchers from the University of Massachusetts at Boston have begun an excavation ...

As children, we all learned about how European settlers from Plymouth Colony shared a peaceful meal with Native Americans to mark the first Thanksgiving — a bright spot in an otherwise dark ...