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…
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…
English Attack during the Pequot War A while back I was reading The Problem of Slavery in Christian America by…
While in Maine this summer we visited the other Pilgrim trading post in the area - Penobscot, or Fort Pentagoet,…
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…