Thanksgiving Day-America’s Oldest National Holiday
Thanksgiving Day-America’s oldest, national holiday commemorates a feast from an abundant harvest reaped by the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony in 1621.
Exploring American History
Thanksgiving Day-America’s oldest, national holiday commemorates a feast from an abundant harvest reaped by the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony in 1621.
The North American lion roamed Alaska to Peru during the end of the Ice Age, but their fossils were not found in northeastern U.S. or Canada.
A new archaeological site in Alaska unearthed prehistoric human remains discovered by scientists in North America. The site was an ancient fire pit within an ancient dwelling in Upward Sun River near the Tanana River in central Alaska. The skeletal remains appeared to belong to a three-year-old child cremated some 11,500 years ago. Radiocarbon dating of the wood at the burial site coincided with that date, which was about the same time …