OPINION Donna Brazile: Pilgrims can teach us important lesson about dealing with our most serious problems I’ve resolved not to give in to discouragement, but to be thankful this Thanksgiving ...

On Sept. 16, 1620, the Mayflower — an 80-foot British cargo ship carrying 102 passengers who wanted to build a new world — departed from Plymouth, England, on this day in history.

The Mayflower pilgrims weren't the first English settlers - Jamestown in Virginia was founded 13 years before; Eastaway says that even if we factor in high childhood mortality rates of the time, ...

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 ...

When the Mayflower pilgrims arrived, they tried to find a place to set up their new colony, searching much of the coastline including the area now known as Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Mayflower descendants defend their ancestors — and the history of America. ... Instead, the Pilgrims’ signing of the Mayflower Compact in 1620 is a more accurate root of our nation, ...

They were known in England as Separatists. People who had illegally separated themselves from the Church of England. But to us they are forever known as the Mayflower Pilgrims. Men and women who ...

But it was not so much a document espousing liberty as it was a means of survival. Of the 102 passengers aboard the Mayflower, only half were Pilgrims. The rest were adventurers and tradesmen, called ...

Together, each will highlight the voyage of the Mayflower and the Pilgrims, including how some aboard the famed ship originated from Holland before setting sail on Sept., 16, 1620 from Plymouth ...

The Pilgrims fixed it with a large screw they had brought for housebuilding. 4. Steerage room: Where the pilot steered the Mayflower with a stick called a whip-staff, which moved the tiller, which ...

Accuracy aside, the Mayflower, the Pilgrims, the First Thanksgiving have all become part of our national origin myth, and it is unlikely to be debunked anytime soon. A Service of EWTN News, Inc.

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 ...