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
The story of the largest surrender during the entire Civil War – after the famous surrender at Appomattox, Joseph E.
One of the most common errors that I have encountered in researching William Bradford and his magnum opus, Of Plymouth