Pilgrim (and Pilgrim era) Weapons The last post introduced us to the accounts of two attacks by the Nauset Indians

Myles Standish's Sword The Pilgrim’s “First Encounter,” with the Natives, as they themselves called it, is rather famous. I recently

  Gustavus Prays before the Army Early in the morning of November 6, 1632, a heavy morning mist hung over

Photo from Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust The wreck of Endurance has been found in the Antarctic, 106 years after the

The fur trade saved the Pilgrims’ Plymouth colony from financial ruin. Setting up a new colony wasn’t cheap, and the

Temple of Kukulcán at Chichen Itza A few weeks ago, on an anniversary trip to Mexico, I dragged1 my wife