The New Plymouth Colony was created in 1895 by irrigation advocates in Chicago who dreamed of a West full of prosperous, irrigated farms. Instead of 160-acre homesteads, the Idaho “pilgrims ...

They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty John G. Turner (Author) Yale University Press. 464 pages. $22.00 ...

Plymouth Colony saw close to 8 percent of its men killed. Of a total native population of 20,000, at least 2,000 were killed, 3,000 more died of starvation or disease, 1,000 were captured and ...

Plymouth enacted its own laws, elected its own leaders, and after a winter of severe hardship, thrived as a peaceful self-governing community. The New York Times has declared that America was ...

By 1643, however, Plymouth was still the largest town in the colony with 147 men aged 16 to 60. In 1637, a proposal to move both Plymouth and Duxbury and combine them into a single town in what ...

America has this image of the early settlers of the Plymouth Colony looking a certain way. The Pilgrims were European and distinctly fair in appearance. However, our notions of what was or might ...

The Plymouth Colony governor confiscated toys from Pilgrims on Christmas Day Merrymaking was not encouraged in 1621. By Erica Yee. December 25, 2017 3 minutes to read. Facebook; ...

“Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English Settlement and Native Resistance From the Mayflower to King Philip’s War,” a thoughtful collection from the renowned Library of America series, ...

It's one of the most important sites in the history of the United States—but we still don't know where, exactly, it was.

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 ...