Colonization

During the summer we made the last big research trip for William Bradford research, and this is the first of

I recently came across some pretty salacious claims about William Bradford and the Pilgrims. As some who has done a

Bradford and the Pilgrims left the Netherlands from Delftshaven. Today it a quaint street with an historic feel The harbor

One interesting place that we visited during our trip to Leiden was the American Pilgrim Museum. It was a house

Since I announced several years ago that I was writing a new biography of William Bradford, I’ve had quite a

Bradford lived in Leiden during a truly formative period of his life, and we spent several days here. It has

While researching for my Bradford biography, I just came across a short poem about the Pilgrims. Seeing that it was

Image by Jeff Nelson under CC BY-SA 2.0 I recently came across a snippet from a letter by Bradford that

One of Amsterdam’s famous canals Nieuwe Kerk, on Amsterdam’s central square, was built in the 1300s. Bradford would have certainly

Painting of a Dutch Woman from this period by Rembrandt Two years ago I wrote a short article on the

This is the start of a series of post from a second research trip to Europe. This time we flew