James Chilton is not one of the most famous passengers of the Mayflower. His name is not used alongside that…
On June 29, 1841, a baby boy was born to the Pegram family in Richmond, Virginia. His parents named him…
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…
Along the banks of the Shenandoah River, in the beautiful Page Valley near Luray, Virginia, a baby boy was born…
One of Amsterdam's famous canals Nieuwe Kerk, on Amsterdam's central square, was built in the 1300s. Bradford would have certainly…
We explore the closing days of the Civil War, when the victorious president Abraham Lincoln was struck down by the…
A tall and bronzed militia captain named Andrew Pickens led his scouts steadily forward to the unseen enemy. The captain…
There are few young ladies today who relish getting up at 5 AM. Even fewer make it a habit of…
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…
As those familiar with the story of the life of William Bradford may already know, he lived in Leiden, Netherlands…