An online edition of this work will rigorously follow the original text, while a print edition will incorporate minor modernizations of spelling and punctuation to make it more accessible to general readers. The New England Historic Genealogical Society and the Colonial Society of Massachusetts have combined under the aegis of New England Beginning to produce a new edition of William Bradford’s Of Plimoth Plantation.

William Bradford, History of Plimoth Plantation. Key primary sources for the study of early Plymouth:Ĭlick on the below links to view a digitized version of the work courtesy of the Internet Archive. This work focuses on the later half of the seventeenth-century, but has important insights into the nature of Wampanoag society. Lisa Brooks, Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (2018). This work is particularly useful for understanding the economics of the colonial venture. Nick Bunker, Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History (2010).

Philbrick has much to say about the evolution of the pilgrims’ relations with the region’s natives. Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Study of Courage, Community, and War (2006). Rebecca Fraser, The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America (2017).Ī very accessible retelling of the Pilgrim story with a focus on Edward Winslow. The best recent study of the pilgrims’ origins from the formation of the congregation in Scrooby to the first months in New England. Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, Strangers and Pilgrims, Travellers and Sojourners: Leiden and the Foundations of Plymouth Plantation (2009). Bremer, Puritanism: A Very Short Introduction, (2009).Ī brief overview of the history and ideas of the puritan movement, of which the pilgrims were a part.

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