The Pilgrims celebrated a harvest festival with ... exert a profound influence on American history as leaders of the colony at Plymouth, Massachusetts, the first permanent European settlement ...

Explores the historical significance of Provincetown, where the Pilgrims first landed in America in 1620. It highlights the Pilgrim Monument, the town's fishing heritage, and the cultural ...

Did the Pilgrims really land at Plymouth Rock? Slade Labadie Dixon, New Mexico It’s hard to be certain. According to oral tradition, the Mayflower Pilgrims landed near the landmark rock in 1620 ...

In his excellent history of the Mayflower and the initial settlement at Plymouth, Nathaniel Philbrick writes of the outlandishness of the Pilgrim project ... of Plymouth Colony, William Bradford ...

Susan Cheever, author of "Drinking in America: Our Secret History," shares an oft-forgotten detail of the Pilgrims' arrival at Plymouth Rock. Due to the unsafe drinking water, passengers on the ...

Over time, the Pilgrims who clung to Plymouth's rocky shores were absorbed into the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Like the Pilgrims, the Puritans believed that the Church of England ...