History

A Powerful Figure in Wampanoag Society Hobbamock (also spelled “Hobomok”), a prominent pniese — an elite warrior, counselor, and trusted agent of the Wampanoag sachem Massasoit Ousamequin — played an

A Voice From the Plymouth Colony Edward Winslow, born in 1595 in England, was one of the Pilgrim leaders who crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower in 1620. Settling at

A Holiday With No Fixed Date For most of the 19th and early 20th centuries, Thanksgiving didn’t have a legally defined date. Following Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 proclamation, presidents simply declared

A Born Storyteller Tony Sarg was born in 1880 in Guatemala to a German father and English mother. Raised in Europe, he grew up fascinated by drawing, puppetry, and animation

Honoring 85 Years of Texas Heritage Beneath a bright Texas sky, hundreds gathered on Veterans Day to celebrate a moment rich in symbolism and history — the rededication of the

She wrote Mary Had a Little Lamb, edited one of the nation’s most influential magazines, and spent 17 years persuading presidents—until Abraham Lincoln finally made Thanksgiving a national holiday. A

Early Life in Patuxet Tisquantum, commonly known as Squanto, was born in the Patuxet tribe, part of the Wampanoag confederation in present-day Massachusetts. His homeland sat in the area later

Texas is charting a new path to celebrate its past and promote its future through the Texas Bicentennial Trail, a new hike-and-bike network connecting the Alamo to the State Capitol.

The political odyssey of Frank S. Meyer Rediscovering a Conservative Architect President Harry Truman famously said, “The only thing new in the world is the history you don’t know.” In

The Birth of an American Ghost Story In 1820, Washington Irving introduced the world to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, a tale that cemented him as one of America’s first