Thanksgiving

General Thanksgiving Sites

Thanksgiving History

  • The Plymouth Colony Archive Project at the University of Virginia — “This Plymouth Colony Archive presents a collection of fully searchable texts, including: court records, colony laws, seventeenth century journals and memoirs, probate inventories, wills, town plans, maps, and fort plans; research and seminar analyses of numerous topics; biographical profiles of selected colonists; and architectural, archaeological and material culture studies.”
  • Thanksgiving — The official website for Plimouth Plantation has a great collection of information on the the history of Thanksgiving, including a feature called You are the Historian: Investigating the First Thanksgiving
  • The First Thanksgiving — Come aboard the Mayflower and meet the passengers, experience life in Plimouth colony, and take the Thanksgiving cyber challenge at this site from Scholastic.com

Thanksgiving Reading and Activities

Thanksgiving Food and Recipes