Who were the Pilgrims (culturally, sociologically speaking)?

Yet the Puritans may have left us something enduring besides the holiday and tourist sites: not a model for American community but an ideology for American culture. True believers. read more

After my last post on Pilgrims I wrote and asked for clarification of it. The other major issue had to do with some becoming quite vocal. At one point if you had a political position you were relieved from that position; that took the Pilgrims years to reach that point. read more

From a -cynical-point of view, this gave me the idea that these pilgrims and all these religious settlers which came to America were somewhat like religious fanatics. read more

The native inhabitants of the region around Plymouth Colony were the various tribes of the Wampanoag people, who had lived there for some 10,000 years before the Europeans arrived. Soon after the Pilgrims built their settlement, they came into contact with Tisquantum, or Squanto, an English-speaking Native American. read more