Long after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1621 and celebrated a successful harvest with a three-day gathering that ...
Why did the Pilgrims leave their old lives behind, to settle a strange alien land?
As Americans gather for Thanksgiving, they celebrate the legacy of the Pilgrims’ success. Lost in the holiday’s mythology are ...
What role did religion play in the genesis of the US? Rejected in their homeland, how did English Puritans become the ...
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Who Were the Pilgrims?
The Pilgrims were Separatists, believing that the church should be separate from the English crown. Their view was a more ...
Here are four myths that have been corrected based on documented history: Myth ... The commonly told version of the 1620 Mayflower landing is that the Pilgrims were the first Europeans to step ...
In September 1620, the Mayflower ... as the Pilgrims, weren’t the first to cross the Atlantic – but their voyage turned out to be one of the most storied in American history.
The Native American tribe living in the area where the Mayflower made ... often overlooked in history books. Relations begin to sour as more colonists arrive As more pilgrims arrived on Wampanoag ...