The Mayflower II was expected to return to its home berth in Plymouth on Thursday, July 16, following a weeklong appearance ...

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 ...

David S. Reynolds' book examines the twin legacies of the Mayflower, which carried the Pilgrims to Plymouth in 1620, and the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

T’was 400 years ago this month, a shipload of Pilgrims and sailors arrived in New England waters after a voyage of 66 days aboard t he Mayflower from England. Seeking to settle near the mouth of the ...