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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
The Mayflower Compact was not put together suddenly on the ship on Nov. 11, 1620, after the Pilgrims landed in Provincetown Harbor, as artistic depictions appear to indicate. The compact that became ...
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 ...
Angela Sailor serves as vice president of The Feulner Institute at The Heritage Foundation. With the Thanksgiving season upon us, a group of scholars is meeting today to discuss the Mayflower Compact, ...
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 ...
The date of Veterans Day is easy for me to remember. It’s Nov. 11, which also is when I was born. I tell people, “Yeah, they fly the flags on my birthday.” The flags actually go up that day because ...
Guests on Wednesday flocked to the Plimoth Patuxet museum on the 400th anniversary of the signing of the Mayflower Compact. It was on board the Mayflower that the Pilgrims, during their ...
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 ...