Joshua Horn

Analyzing Two “First Encounters” – Champlain vs Standish

The last post introduced us to the accounts of two attacks by the Nauset Indians on European explorers on Cape…

3 years ago

A Tale of Two “First Encounters” – Champlain vs Standish

The Pilgrim’s “First Encounter,” with the Natives, as they themselves called it, is rather famous. I recently came across a…

3 years ago

The Wreck of Shackleton’s Endurance Has Been Found!

The wreck of Endurance has been found in the Antarctic, 106 years after the historic ship was crushed in pack…

3 years ago

The Five Trading Posts of the Pilgrims

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

3 years ago

Mayan Reflections

A few weeks ago, on an anniversary trip to Mexico, I dragged1 my wife around the ruins of several ancient…

3 years ago

When Historians Get in the Way: The Search for Real History

There have been many times while deep in research, that I have found myself scanning a historian’s account, searching for…

3 years ago

The Voyage of the Mayflower

Discover the famous voyage of the Pilgrims from Holland and England to Plymouth on the Speedwell and Mayflower. They encountered…

3 years ago

Reformation Day Livestream 2021

Tune in Friday for a livestream of Reformation Baptist Church's annual Reformation Day celebration, on the 400th anniversary of the…

3 years ago

Why the Pilgrims Should Have Been Baptists

During my continuing studies on the Pilgrims, I came across a passage that bears on the continuing debate over infant…

4 years ago

What Makes a Successful Colony?

Many groups attempted to settle the New World – the Spanish, English, French, Dutch and others. Some succeeded and some…

4 years ago

Origin of the Pilgrim Separatists

The background behind the congregation that would eventually come to America as Plymouth's Pilgrims.

4 years ago

The Best Edition of Of Plymouth Plantation

Of Plymouth Plantation is a classic of early American literature, and the manuscript has a story to rival that of Plymouth…

4 years ago