In November 1620, the Mayflower completed its voyage across the Atlantic. Before its weary passengers walked on American soil for the first time, 41 men signed their names to a simple agreement. They ...

Angela Sailor serves as vice president of The Feulner Institute at The Heritage Foundation. Joseph Loconte / @JosephLoconte Joseph Loconte, Ph.D., is the director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for ...

Around this particular Thanksgiving holiday, especially in the midst of our current travails, we should take a moment to recall that this is the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower voyage, the founding ...

They had been at sea for more than two months, and by the time they reached landfall, the grip of winter was tightening. The following year, when spring finally arrived, only half of the 102 who ...

Exactly 400 years after 41 men in the galley of a ship called the Mayflower agreed to form a “civil body politic,” the public would do well to put the “civil” back into our self-government. The ...

The Mayflower Compact and William Bradford's "Of Plimoth Plantation" are two documents that give a window into what the men and women of Plymouth Colony went through to survive, and they hold lessons ...

Mayflower sent 21,000 travelers-70 percent of them were repeat customers- on escorted tours by motor coach, rail and air to more than 68 destinations in the United States and Canada, producing $13 ...

If this were any ordinary year — instead of one where Thanksgiving celebrations are miniaturized — there would be celebrations and fireworks to mark the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower Compact this ...

Nov. 11 is an important day in America. Not only does the country honor its veterans, but it is a day when, 400 years ago, a small group of Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact, a document that ...

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Gov. Henry McMaster recently signed Act No. 68 (H4267) designating Nov. 21 as Mayflower Compact Day in South Carolina. This officially recognizes the first written document of self-government on ...

2020-11-28T21:03:47-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/7b6/20201128214425003_hd.jpgThe Heritage Foundation hosted a discussion about the Mayflower Compact, the ...