Grace, Catherine O'Neill

Summary: A recreation of the first Thanksgiving reveals the actual events during the three days that the Wampanoag people and the colonists came together.

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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2001

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Deetz, James.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.H. Freeman 2000

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Lynch, Patrick James

Summary: An illustrated account of the life of John Howland, the young servant who was indentured to Pilgrim John Carver, describes how he embarked on the Mayflower and survived a fall off the ship before helping his ill shipmates by scouting out a safe harbor.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015

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Greenwood, Mark

Summary: Describes the transatlantic journey taken by the pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, detailing their hardships until they reached their destination in the New World.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2014

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Messner, Kate

Summary: "Myths about the Mayflower and the Pilgrim's arrival in modern-day America debunked"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020

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Lindsay, David

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2002

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Pestana, Carla Gardina

Summary: "On the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing and the establishment of Plymouth Plantation, Carla Gardina Pestana offers an intimate look at life in the settlement. Hardly the isolated outpost of myth, in Pestana's telling Plymouth is revealed as a vibrant place of meeting, with strong connections to the seventeenth-century colonial world"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2020

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Stratton, Eugene Aubrey.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ancestry Pub. 1986

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Philbrick, Nathaniel.

Summary: From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. Yet, as author Philbrick reveals, the true story of the Pilgrims is much more than the well-known tale of piety and sacrifice; it is a 55-year epic. The Mayflower's religious refugees arrived in Plymouth Harbor during a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006

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Bunker, Nick.

Summary: The Pilgrims were entrepreneurs as well as evangelicals, political radicals as well as Christian idealists. "Making Haste from Babylon" tells their story in unrivaled depth, from their roots in religious conflict and village strife at home to their final creation of a permanent foothold in America.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010

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Fraser, Rebecca

Summary: From acclaimed historian and biographer Rebecca Fraser comes a vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world. The voyage of the Mayflower and the founding of Plymouth Colony is one of the seminal events in world history. But the poorly-equipped group of English Puritans who ventured across the Atlantic in the early autumn...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017

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Bangs, Jeremy Dupertuis

Summary: Transcriptions of more than four hundred Native American land conveyances from Plymouth Colony court records are now accessible to researchers.

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Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2002

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Mack, Jonathan D.

Summary: "The fascinating story of Stephen Hopkins, perhaps the most important person on board the Mayflower when it sailed from England in 1620. The only member of the expedition who had been across the Atlantic before, as a survivor of the colony at Jamestown, Hopkins played a vital role in bridging the divide of suspicion between the Pilgrims and their Native American neighbors. Without him, these...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2020

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Silverman, David J.

Summary: Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story. In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019

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