A young widow named Anna made her way slowly through the streets of Zurich on a cold January morning in…
As I research the life of William Bradford for a new biography, I plan over the next few years to…
Note: I’ve rewritten this post after coming across more evidence on the topic during my further research for my William…
A young Boer farmer named Paul Kruger took aim at a large rhinoceros. Already, at the age of 20, Paul…
During my recent studies on Bradford and the Pilgrims, I was reading about some archeology conducted in Fort Pentagoet, a…
The meeting of the local covenant church community played a big role in the life of William Bradford and the…
The last post introduced us to the accounts of two attacks by the Nauset Indians on European explorers on Cape…
The Pilgrim’s “First Encounter,” with the Natives, as they themselves called it, is rather famous. I recently came across a…
Early in the morning of November 6, 1632, a heavy morning mist hung over the fields around Lützen. In…
The wreck of Endurance has been found in the Antarctic, 106 years after the historic ship was crushed in pack…
The fur trade saved the Pilgrims’ Plymouth colony from financial ruin. Setting up a new colony wasn’t cheap, and the…
A few weeks ago, on an anniversary trip to Mexico, I dragged1 my wife around the ruins of several ancient…