The arrival of the “Mayflower” in the New World is one of the foundational history lessons we all learned in school.
We all know the story of the Pilgrims arriving, setting foot on Plymouth Rock. And then the first Thanksgiving, sitting down to a feast with the Native Americans
Except, most of that isn’t true.
What is true is that the Pilgrims did arrive on the “Mayflower” a week before Christmas in 1620. From there the things we were taught get a little fuzzy.
In 2006 award-winning author and historian Nathaniel Philbrick published a groundbreaking book called Mayflower. And what you’re about to hear is going to bust some of those cherished myths wide open.
So here now, from 2006, Nathaniel Philbrick.
Nathaniel Philbrick is 68. He lives not far from where the Mayflower pilgrims arrived.