One month into the voyage of the Mayflower, John Howland, an indentured servant from Huntingtonshire, could bear the smells and the damp and the darkness below deck no more. He went upstairs for some ...

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 ...

The Mayflower Pilgrims are famed for founding Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, after landing in 1620. They later celebrated the first "Thanksgiving", which has become an enduring American tradition.

PLYMOUTH — New England Historic Genealogical Society has partnered with General Society of Mayflower Descendants to bring genealogical resources to their members ...

As you carve the turkey today and look around the table at your loved ones, there are important lessons you can teach both young and old about our American Thanksgiving holiday. When the Pilgrims ...

Though the Plymouth colonists held the first-ever Thanksgiving with the Wampanoag natives -- an enduring symbol of the American spirit -- they are now disparaged. Their descendants are livid. Getty ...

New York Times subscribers* enjoy full access to TimesMachine—view over 150 years of New York Times journalism, as it originally appeared. *Does not include Games-only or Cooking-only subscribers.

You’re crammed in a room, shoulder-to-shoulder with 100 other passengers. It’s dark. It smells. It’s wet and very cold. There’s no privacy. No bathrooms. Your meals are pitiful — salted meat and a ...

This month marks the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower’s arrival at Plymouth Rock and the signing of the Mayflower Compact, the first set of rules for self-governance in the New World. On Sept. 6, ...

Pop culture has given us a distorted picture of the religious separatists who founded Plymouth Colony. Historian John Turner sets the record straight. Pilgrims have become a staple of American life ...