NFBDG Mayflower Resources

MAYFLOWER: VOYAGE, COMMUNITY, WAR

Nonfiction Book Discussion group When we look to how the Pilgrims and their children maintained more than 50 years of peace with the Wampanoags and how that peace erupted into one of the deadliest wars ever fought on American soil, the history of Plymouth Colony becomes something altogether new, rich, troubling, and complex. Instead of the story we already know, it becomes the story we need to know. [From the Preface] “Departure of the Pilgrim Fathers From Delfshaven” (1620) by Adam Willaerts from the Rose-Marie and Eijk de Mol van Otterloo collection. Credit: Museum de Lakenhal Leiden William Bradford (1590-1657) was a founder and longtime governor of the Plymouth Colony settlement. Born in England, he migrated with the Separatist congregation to the Netherlands as a teenager. Bradford was among the passengers on the Mayflower’s trans-Atlantic journey, and he signed the Mayflower Compact upon arriving in Massachusetts in 1620. As Plymouth Colony governor for more than thirty years, Bradford helped draft its legal code and facilitated a community centered on private subsistence agriculture and religious tolerance. Around 1630, he began to compile his two-volume “Of Plymouth Plantation,” one of the most important early chronicles of the settlement of New England. A 19th-century engraving of Benjamin Church.

The "Seat of Philip" at the eastern shore of Mount Hope.

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American Experience: We Shall Remain. Episode 1 covers this time period. https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/10084635, https://www.kanopy.com/product/we-shall-remain

The Pilgrims: From Refugees in the Netherlands to American Colonists MFA link forthcoming http: Learn more - the author

C-SPAN interview with Nathatiel Philbrick: https://www.c-span.org/video/?192903-1/mayflower

Philbrick on being a writer: https://diymfa.com/podcast/episode-196-nathaniel-philbrick

Virtual author talk 11/12: http://mastatelibrary.blogspot.com/2020/10/november-virtual-author-talk-nathaniel.html