So, did the Mayflower land on Plymouth Rock? Thomas Faunce had almost zero reason to lie. On the other hand, none of the surviving primary sources mention landing on a rock. We just don’t know.

Occultism and nation-building have been strangely intertwined, particularly in the gestation of America, writes Ed Simon ...

Beer played an essential role in the story of the Pilgrims who first arrived in North America, as did the Native Americans ...

It became known as the Pilgrims’ stepping-stone to the New World when a man in his 90s, named Thomas Faunce, said that his father, who was on the Mayflower, claimed the rock served as the actual ...

The nine-week voyage of the Puritan ship the Arbella in 1630 is almost as mythologized as the Mayflower landing at Plymouth Rock. The Arbella was the ship on which Massachusetts Bay Colony’s ...