The Mayflower, a leaky 80-foot-long British cargo ship carrying 102 passengers who were determined to build a new society "for the glory of God," departed from Plymouth, England on this day in history ...

A crewless robotic boat retracing the 1620 sea voyage of the Mayflower has landed near Plymouth Rock. The sleek Mayflower Autonomous Ship met with an escort boat as it approached the Massachusetts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Due to her strong bond with her grandmother, Janney was interested in learning more about the maternal side of her family. On her ...

An unmanned robotic boat retracing the Mayflower’s 1620 sea voyage has arrived near Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts, over 400 years after the European settlers’ initial pilgrimage. The vessel known as ...

THANKSGIVING, WE ARE TOLD, started with a rock. A destination in modern-day Massachusetts for any child within field-trip distance, Plymouth Rock is said to mark the spot where the Mayflower landed in ...

Though the Plymouth colonists held the first-ever Thanksgiving with the Wampanoag natives -- an enduring symbol of the American spirit -- they are now disparaged. Their descendants are livid. Getty ...

Are you related to one of America's first immigrants? A new "Pilgrim database" from the New England Historic Genealogical Society and the General Society of Mayflower Descendants will let you know for ...

Much has been written about the 102 Europeans who crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower in 1620. Much less has been written about the Wampanoag Native American community the Europeans met on the ...

In November 1620, the Mayflower completed its voyage across the Atlantic. Before its weary passengers walked on American soil for the first time, 41 men signed their names to a simple agreement. They ...

One month into the voyage of the Mayflower, John Howland, an indentured servant from Huntingtonshire, could bear the smells and the damp and the darkness below deck no more. He went upstairs for some ...

On a new episode of Who Do You Think You Are? airing Sunday, Oscar-winning actress Allison Janney found out her connection to the Mayflower in 1620. Due to her strong bond with her grandmother, Janney ...