A Felix the Cat balloon, followed by Terrible Turk and Willie Red Bird balloons are led down Broadway during the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, 24th November 1932. From turkey to football, ...

Now that Halloween is over, it's time to pack away the costumes and sweets and gear up for turkey and football — Thanksgiving is coming! The holiday always lands on the fourth Thursday in November, ...

We all learned the story of Thanksgiving as kids. We were taught that the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620 and were helped by friendly Native Americans to navigate their new home. Together, ...

It makes plenty of sense that "America's Team" plays every year on American Thanksgiving, but it wasn't always that way. Unlike their fellow annual hosts, the Cowboys have had plenty of success ...

Thanksgiving and NFL football go hand-in-hand today, but when did the tradition of football on Turkey Day even start? As it turns out, the NFL – technically, its direct predecessor, the American ...

Listen! Listen to the truth-tellers who renamed Thanksgiving a day of mourning. It started in Connecticut—but not the way we were told at school. In 1637, the English colonizers carried out a pre-dawn ...

Nine in 10 Americans gather around a table to share food on Thanksgiving. At this polarizing moment, anything that promises to bring Americans together warrants our attention. But as a historian of ...