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
Myles Standish’s Sword The Pilgrim’s “First Encounter,” with the Natives, as they themselves called it, is rather famous. I recently
The fur trade saved the Pilgrims’ Plymouth colony from financial ruin. Setting up a new colony wasn’t cheap, and the
Temple of Kukulcán at Chichen Itza A few weeks ago, on an anniversary trip to Mexico, I dragged1 my wife
