Shellfish, cranberries, currants, walnuts ... The story of that first Thanksgiving traveled back to England in a letter to a friend from colonist Edward Winslow. In 1622, it was published in ...

Especially because the traditional "first Thanksgiving" story taught in schools tends to erase the true history, with ...

years. But what did the very first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade look like? And what was the first float in the parade? View ...

Getty Images; photograph colorization by Dana Keller That first parade held on a relatively mild Thanksgiving Day in 1924, was extolled as “a marathon of mirth” in splashy newspaper ads.