You may know that the Pilgrims sailed aboard the Mayflower and arrived in Plymouth, Mass. in 1620. But did you know their first Thanksgiving celebration lasted three whole days?
Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
Ultimately, all harvest festivities celebrate one more season of our tenuous survival. We have managed to live through another year. Another fertile period has passed in our favor.
Patricia Draznin | Posted 11.16.2009 | Comedy
As we approach the 2009 holiday season we pause to give thanks for the blessings of good friends, organic eggnog, and unemployment compensation.
Jim Luce | Posted 10.28.2009 | New York
Vargas Llosa speaks about Barack Obama's Nobel Prize, the state of literature, inter-American relations and politics.
Bruce Feiler | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
The themes of Moses' life -- social mobility, standing up to authority, balancing freedom and law, dreaming of a promised land -- would make any short list of America's defining traits.
Bruce Feiler | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics
Obama is not the first president to connect the American spirit to the story of Moses: Washington compared the Revolution to the Exodus; Jefferson quoted Moses in his second inaugural.
Ray Suarez | Posted 05.01.2009 | World
I have always been interested in those places where the membrane between the seen and the unseen is thin -- where human beings feel able to touch the eternal.
Steven Weber | Posted 04.15.2009 | Politics
The current version of Conservative Republicanism is not an ideology which stands for prosperity and freedom but for bureaucratic negligence, corporate corruption and socio-political division.
Lee Stranahan | Posted 03.31.2009 | Politics
Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh wants Barack Obama's economic policies to fail. He said it, he said it again, and he said it again at CPAC. Limbaug...
Etan Bednarsh | Posted 12.28.2008 | Entertainment
The first Thanksgiving was an amalgam of individuals and groups fused through a manufactured sense of community, with people thrust, tentatively, into foreign roles.
Cathleen Falsani | Posted 12.26.2008 | Living
Look at the people at the table, whether it's one or 100. Ask them what they're thankful for and listen, patiently. Listen with your heart, if you can locate it under all the mashed potatoes.
Michael DeJong | Posted 12.25.2008 | Green
I'm thankful for the oncoming cornucopia of change. But for some dumb reason, while I'm a thankful person and feel wickedly blessed -- I'm just not crazy about Thanksgiving.
236.com | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
The Pilgrims is the name commonly applied to a particular group of seventeenth-century European colonial dicks. They settled in present-day Plymouth, ...
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living