Abstract
No survey of the Atlantic World would be complete without incorporating the first permanent European settlement in southern New England, Plimoth (Plymouth). Plimoth Plantation, a nonprofit educational organization that maintains the living history museum of that seventeenth-century settlement, has given teachers a powerful teaching tool through a new interactive online learning center, titled “You are the Historian: Investigating the First Thanksgiving.” The site has been designed for third-through fifth-grade students and their teachers but the format of the material can be adapted for other grades as well. An online teacher's guide, accessible through the site, provides suggestions for classroom lessons that support the online activities. This free site can be accessed through Plimoth Plantation's web site, <http://www.plimoth.org)>. Today, Americans often associate Thanksgiving with parades, football, family, and turkey. And when they typically envision the first Thanksgiving, images of Pilgrims and Indians sitting at a long banquet table...
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