Plymouth, England was the final departure point of the Pilgrims on their voyage to the New World. It was also
If you are familiar with the Pilgrim story you will know that they departed for America three different times. Dartmouth
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