Informative, accessible, and compelling, They Knew They Were Pilgrims is a welcome invitation to rediscover the Mayflower voyage and the founding of Plymouth Colony at a distance of four centuries.

A piece of colonial history is set to begin its voyage home. The Mayflower II will return to Plymouth following months of restoration work in Mystic, Connecticut.. The replica of the ship that ...

Travel Walk through a 1667 Plymouth home where Mayflower pilgrims lived About 2 million people in the U.S., including three presidents, can trace their ancestry to the pilgrim family who lived there.

The organizations behind Plymouth 400, the commemoration of the Mayflower voyage and the founding of Plymouth Colony announced Tuesday the year-long schedule of signature events for the 2020 ...

Just over four centuries ago, 102 men, women and children set sail on the Mayflower, ... William Bradford, a Pilgrim and, later, governor of the Plymouth Colony, wrote in his journal, ...

Hostility, slavery and pandemic. Tradition dictates the Pilgrims’ story starts in September 1620, with the departure of the Mayflower, packed with colonists and sailors, leaving England to set ...

Are you related to one of America's first immigrants? A new "Pilgrim database" from the New England Historic Genealogical Society and the General Society of Mayflower Descendants will let you know ...

Four centuries ago, 102 men, women and children set sail on the Mayflower, ... William Bradford, a Pilgrim and, later, governor of the Plymouth Colony, wrote in his journal, ...

Another Mayflower descendant and teacher, D’Ann Nash, 48, in Terrebonne, Ore., asks her high-school students to read parts of “Of Plymouth Plantation,” the “warts and all” history of the ...

A first-hand account of the first permanent European colony in New England, including the fall harvest meal that inspired America’s Thanksgiving tradition, has been reprinted for a wider ...

Most people know something about the Mayflower and the English Puritans who founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620. Some know about the governor of that colony, William Bradford, who wrote “Of ...

To mark the 400th anniversary of the Plymouth Colony's first Thanksgiving feast, Northeast Florida Mayflower descendants earlier this month invited to dinner a Middle Eastern family that, like ...