A “slightly” inaccurate representation of the First Thanksgiving It’s Thanksgiving, which means that the Pilgrims are in the news, and
Plymouth, England was the final departure point of the Pilgrims on their voyage to the New World. It was also
If you are familiar with the Pilgrim story you will know that they departed for America three different times. Dartmouth
What follows is a section from an early draft of an introductory chapter to my Bradford biography. It ended up
No research trip on William Bradford is complete without a visit to Austerfield Manor, his purported ancestral home. Unfortunately we
Early one morning I visited a London street where there is some chance Bradford lived A scant modern reference to
One of the hottest topics in modern history is slavery. This has bled over into study of the Pilgrims, even
Source This was a few years ago, but if you missed it, an exciting discovery was made in the ruins
I’ve reached a milestone in my Bradford biography – I’ve finished a draft of the first chapter. I still have
I recently came across this poem by John Quincy Adams on the Mayflower Pilgrims. It doesn’t seem readily available on
Juneteenth is the US’s newest holiday. Join us as we discuss its Civil War origins, and why it exploded in
In this video Destin of Smarter Every Day attempts to recreate an amazing artifact in the Smithsonian Museum of two bullets were found that directly it in midair and fused together.