Pilgrims 
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SOURCE: TIME
12/17/2020
How America Keeps Adapting the Story of the Pilgrims at Plymouth to Match the Story We Need to Tell
by Peter C. Mancall
The prevailing memory of Plymouth has shifted as Americans have used it as an allegory for their contemporary concerns. Most notably, the harsh religious orthodoxy of Plymouth was converted by the 19th century to stand for religious liberty, a concept the Pilgrims would have found odious.
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11/22/2020
UCLA Historian Carla Pestana Debunks Myths About the Pilgrims and the Plymouth Colony
by James Thornton Harris
Alert Tom Cotton: Plymouth Rock, the Mayflower Compact, and the origins of Thanksgiving are just a few of the things Professor Carla Pestana finds in need of historical revision.
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August 11, 2019
The History and Mythology of the Mayflower Arrival in 1620
by Martyn Whittock
The true history of the Mayflower's arrival in 1620.
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