By Sherri Stewart   As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, I thought it useful to consider how our modern-day traditions correspond to ...

By Mary Dodge Allen The Mayflower at Sea, painted by Gilbert Tucker Margeson The Pilgrims had originally planned to sail to the New World in...

Blogger: Amber Schamel Baptism of Virginia Dare , wood-engraving , 1880 Public Domain Our next subject in our Famous Infants in History seri...

By Elaine Marie Cooper My recent blog posts for Heroes, Heroines, and History have turned into a series. Why? Because never before in ...

Where Did They Land?  by Martha Rogers    Much lore, legend and tradition surrounds the first colonies of the new land on the Atlantic coast...