Longtime cultural educator Hope Flanagan (Seneca, Turtle Clan) says that, in teaching the true history of a holiday that represented the beginning of colonization for the Indigenous People of ...

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2020, file photo, Annawon Weeden sits for a portrait outside his home in Oakdale, Conn. As schools rethink Thanksgiving lessons, many are also looking to expand lessons on ...

It is good that “The American Revolution,” a series by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, premiered on PBS the week before Thanksgiving. It is good to be reminded of the sacrifices that were ...

In a year of firsts, this year was the first Thanksgiving Day to line up with the Oregon Department of Education’s new “Tribal History/Shared History” curriculum. The curriculum was created so schools ...

BOSTONBOSTON — A friendly feast shared by the plucky Pilgrims and their native neighbors? That’s yesterday’s Thanksgiving story. Students in many U.S. schools are now learning a more complex lesson ...

Instead of making Pilgrim hats, students are hearing what scholars call “hard history” — the more shameful aspects of the past. Susannah Remillard teaches her sixth-grade students at Cape Cod ...