While in Maine this summer we visited the other Pilgrim trading post in the area – Penobscot, or Fort Pentagoet,
The American Civil War Museum I’ve had the opportunity to go to quite a few history museums, and one of
When the Pilgrims arrived off of the coast of New England, before they landed, they signed a document called the
Plymouth Grist Mill This will be a pretty quick post, but I thought it would be worth assembling in one
Depiction of the First Thanksgiving The smoke curled upward from an open-air fire as the smell of roasting turkey filled
Monhegan Island from the air Once Bradford arrived in Plymouth, the furthest he is recorded making was to Monhegan, a
This post is two and a half years too late. Back then Christian sites were full of articles debating back
As I research the life of William Bradford for a new biography, I plan over the next few years to
Abortion is a hot topic in modern America. The history of abortion is long and complex, and well outside the
The Dig at Fort Pentagoet. Get the book. During my recent studies on Bradford and the Pilgrims, I was reading
Church Built in Plymouth by the Pilgrim’s descendants The meeting of the local covenant church community played a big role
Pilgrim (and Pilgrim era) Weapons The last post introduced us to the accounts of two attacks by the Nauset Indians