Pilgrims

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• SOURCE: NPR
  8/10/2022
  

  Massachusetts Indigenous Groups Call for Boycott of Living History Museum at Plymouth

  Members of the Wampanoag nation say that Plimoth Patuxet Museums has failed to honor a pledge to create a truly bicultural museum depicting indigenous history respectfully. 

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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.