Northeastern’s 115-year-old Matthews Arena will host its final game this weekend before demolition begins for a new facility.

Scholars have spent years studying Harvard’s colonial-era land holdings in New England. Now, undergraduate research on the ...

Over 400 years ago, English explorer John Smith wrote of several Indigenous settlements along a river in modern-day Virginia.

For more than 10,000 years before Europeans arrived, the Northeast was home to many tribes with organized leadership and ...

America's culinary heritage has been heavily influenced by other cuisines, so it's not especially easy to define exactly what ...

It was held by the English Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony and members of the Wampanoag Nation. The gathering was to celebrate the Pilgrims’ first successful corn harvest in the “New World,” which was ...

But there is more to this celebration — this annual ritual — than just “turkey and dressing.” Thanksgiving is commonly known as a way to commemorate the colonial Pilgrims’ harvest meal in 1621, which ...

It’s a sunny spring morning as Nakai Clearwater Northup stands amid white pine trees, near a river, surveying the land. Looking at his Narragansett homelands in southern Rhode Island, he says hunting ...

This MA Native American tribe sat down with Pilgrims at the 'first' Thanksgiving, but it didn't go as the traditional story suggests.

What made this encounter truly extraordinary was Samoset's command of the English language. He had learned to speak English from fishermen who worked the waters off Monhegan Island in the Gulf of ...

The emphasis on the Pilgrims’ feast narrowed conceptions of who belongs in America, excluding groups like Native Americans, Catholics & Jews.

This MA Native American tribe sat down with Pilgrims at the 'first' Thanksgiving, but it didn't go as the traditional story suggests.