It was the beginning of another uncertain chapter of the Pilgrim story. With winter upon them, they had to build homes and find sources of food, while negotiating the shifting political alliances of ...
The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution. They left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas. In October 1621, when the people we now call Pilgrims ...
The first Thanksgiving calls to mind a slideshow of images: the “Mayflower,” Plymouth Rock, men in funny black hats, Indians, and turkey. Except for wild turkey, which may have been absent from the ...
(The Conversation) — In some ways, Thanksgiving is a tradition that unites Americans. But the classic image of the Pilgrims obscures important parts of the country’s story. (The Conversation) — Nine ...
This Thanksgiving will be the 402nd in our history, counting back to when the Pilgrims, near the end of their first full year in the New World, shared a three-day feast with the Wampanoag Indians. In ...
Plymouth, MA, USA - View of the historic Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, MA. It’s too bad that the incoming neo-communist mayors of New York City and Seattle don’t know the real story of Thanksgiving and ...
But those who thought about going to New England, especially the Pilgrims who were kindred souls of Bradford, believed that there were higher rewards to be reaped. Bradford and the other Puritans who ...