Feast, family, football, friendship... but what was the story behind the sailing flower where it all originated?
What role did religion play in the genesis of the US? Rejected in their homeland, how did English Puritans become the ...
Why did the Pilgrims leave their old lives behind, to settle a strange alien land?
From the landing on Plymouth Rock to the harmonious feast with the native Wampanoags, the story about the Pilgrims is rife ...
What makes the story of 102 Pilgrims so unique and important to American history is their unyielding commitment to religious freedom, justice, and civil government.
The Pilgrims were Separatists, believing that the church should be separate from the English crown. Their view was a more ...
As Americans gather for Thanksgiving, they celebrate the legacy of the Pilgrims’ success. Lost in the holiday’s mythology are ...
While many know the story of Thanksgiving, there are details often left out. For one, only 52 of the 130 pilgrims who set sail on the Mayflower survived the first year after reaching what is now ...
But as a scholar of both English and American history, I know there are significant differences ... they decided in 1620 to ...
Thanksgiving is truly an American holiday. School children in their earliest years color pictures of the Pilgrims, Indigenous ...
Long after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1621 and celebrated a successful harvest with a three-day gathering that ...
When the first settlers arrived in Jamestown in April 1607 and raised a cross at Cape Henry, claiming the land for England, ...