Around this time last year, the oldest tree in Washington, DC came crashing to the ground. The Northampton Oak was likely planted around the time of the Mayflow ...

The Mayflower Compact, brief as it is, is worthy of more attention than it has thus far received on this 400th anniversary, during a year in which so much attention has been focused on America’s ...

The Mayflower Compact was revolutionary in that it was the first example of government by consent of the governed in the New World. The foundational ideals of liberty and self-government ...

Sept. 12, 2020: Mayflower II Gala, Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum, Provincetown. A gala commemorating the signing of the Mayflower Compact, complete with food, drinks, and historical ...

She accurately noted that before the Mayflower Compact was signed on November 11, the Strangers — who made up a third of the group — were ready to mutiny, ...

A copy of the Mayflower Compact is posted on the entrance to the Mayflower II, in Plymouth. The first colonists actually arrived in Provincetown, it's believed, not Plymouth, four centuries ago.

The Mayflower Compact begins with the Pilgrims' earnest prayer: "In the name of God, Amen." The writers then stated the purpose of their new society: "Having undertaken, ...

A Louisiana law that mandates the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools relegates the commandments to a mere ...

The Mayflower Compact was signed on Nov. 21, 1620 (Nov. 11 under the then-current Julian calendar), not just by noblemen, as had been the Magna Carta and the Declaration of Arbroath, but by 36 ...

The Mayflower Compact, signed on November 11, 1620, broke ranks with English political theory and practice, in which unelected monarchs issued decrees and ruled by divine right.

Louisiana's law mandating Ten Commandments displays in public schools deemed unconstitutional by 5th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

On Sept. 16, 1620, the Mayflower — an 80-foot British cargo ship carrying 102 passengers who wanted to build a new world — departed from Plymouth, England, on this day in history.