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Actual Pilgrim diaries are used to tell the dramatic story of the Mayflower journey, joys and sorrows in the new land and eventual Thanksgiving celebration.

Describes everyday life in a replica of the 17th-century community and presents interviews with men and women who speak Elizabethan English and live as the original settlers did.

An introduction to the Massachusetts colony, one of the original thirteen American colonies, examining the daily lives of settlers and the Native Americans who first occupied the land, looking at the role of Massachusetts in the fight for independence from England, and including brief profiles of Massachusetts' founding fathers.

Explains how the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving in 1621 differs from today's holiday in terms of activities and food.

Presents a short history of the voyage of the Mayflower in 1620 written in graphic novel format, and focuses on the reasons why the Pilgrims came to the New World and how they started Plymouth Colony.

Provides information about silversmith Paul Revere's life in colonial America, and discusses his role in the earliest battle of the Revolutionary War.

Presents a short biography of American patriot, Paul Revere and describes how the colonial silversmith helped to further the cause of independence.

Presents a short biography of Anne Hutchinson, her youth in England and journey to America in 1634, her campaign against slavery and other injustices, her death in 1643, and the legacy she left behind.

Presents a short biography of William Bradford, his childhood in England and life in Holland, arrival in the new world aboard the Mayflower, the Mayflower Compact and Plymouth Colony, and his long career as governor of the colony.

Examines the formation of the Mayflower Compact and its importance as the first written document of self-government in the new world and provides information on the early settlers and the reasons they left England as well as the struggles of the Plymouth Plantation.