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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The Pilgrims were entrepreneurs as well as evangelicals, political radicals as well as Christian idealists. "Making Haste from Babylon" tells their story in unrivaled depth, from their roots in religious conflict and village strife at home to their final creation of a permanent foothold in America.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once a year at Thanksgiving, we encounter Pilgrims as folksy people in funny hats before promptly forgetting them. In the centuries since America began, the Pilgrims have been relegated to folklore and childrens stories, fairy-tale mascots for holiday parties and greeting cards.The true story of the Pilgrim Fathers could not be more different. Beginning with the execution of two pastors deviating from the Elizabethan Church of England, the Pilgrims...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Leading into the 400th anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower, Martyn Whittock examines the lives of the "saints" (members of the Separatist puritan congregations) and "strangers" (economic migrants) on the original ship. Collectively, these people would become known to history as "the Pilgrims." The story of the Pilgrims has taken on a life of its own as one of our founding national myths-their escape from religious persecution, the dangerous...
Author
Series
Old South leaflets ; nos. 232-233
Publisher
Old South Association
Pub. Date
[1966]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Pilgrim Press
Pub. Date
[1920]
Language
English
Description
From the Foreword:
"This little book is intended as a memorial to the women who came in The Mayflower, and their comrades who came later in The Ann and The Fortune, who maintained the high standards of home life in early Plymouth Colony. There is no attempt to make a genealogical study of any family. The effort is to reveal glimpses of the communal life during 1621-1623. This is supplemented by a few silhouettes of individual matrons and maidens to...
13) The Mayflower
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Myths about the Mayflower and the Pilgrim's arrival in modern-day America debunked"--
Challenging popular misconceptions about the actual events behind major historical periods, a fact-first chronicle of the Mayflower voyage and founding of the Plymouth Rock colony reveals how the Pilgrims nearly settled elsewhere, almost had a second ship and only met the Wampanoag months after arriving. -
16) Mayflower
Author
Publisher
Patrick Stephens Ltd [for] Airfix Products
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
20) Pilgrim cat
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A young pilgrim girl and the cat she discovers on the Mayflower voyage begin their life together in the Plymouth settlement.
