An aerial view of Southampton, the first departure port of the Pilgrims on their journey to America A monument to
A “slightly” inaccurate representation of the First Thanksgiving It’s Thanksgiving, which means that the Pilgrims are in the news, and
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
What follows is a section from an early draft of an introductory chapter to my Bradford biography. It ended up
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
One invaluable resource that researchers of William Bradford have is an inventory of his goods taken after his death. While