San Antonio College Library

"Following the American Revolution, citizens of the United States began to write a history of their new nation starting with the first English settlements, Jamestown and Plymouth. Virginians embellished the saga of Jamestown and Pocahontas, the Indian woman who, by popular accounts, saved the colony. Similarly, New Englanders sanctified the Pilgrims and their mythical first step on Plymouth Rock." "By comparing these two origin myths, investigating...

Here are the Pilgrim fathers as they were in life, in triumph and defeat and exasperation, men who were far from being meek, drab, overly pious folk. With diaries, letters, histories, and journals, George Willison has allowed them to paint their own portraits, speak their own minds, and reveal their own human -- very human -- characters as they struggled to pioneer new frontiers in both the physical and spiritual worlds. Based on Pilgrim and contemporary...

Historical novel dramatizing the voyage of the Mayflower to the New World starting a few days before the sailing and ending three months after the landing.

A documented accounted of the Mayflower's transatlantic voyage and the establishment of the Plymouth settlement.

"The Times of Their Lives presents a realistic, factual account of the Plymouth colony based on contemporary archaeology, cultural research, and living history. Taking little known trial transcripts, personal accounts, wills, and probate records, as well as physical artifacts such as shards and spoons unearthed from old foundations, James and Patricia Deetz reveal what life in seventeenth-century Plymouth was really like. In the process they blow...