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Rejects & Revolutionaries (American History Podcast)

Mar 28, 2018

The year after the first Thanksgiving brought an unraveling of everything the Pilgrims had been working to build.  Plenty was replaced by poverty, relations with the Poconoquet started to break down, and strangers threatened the religious mission of the colony.  


Mar 21, 2018

In the months after meeting Massasoit, growing corn and building relations with the Indians were the two highest priorities.  And, a year after their departure from England, they seemed to have done both with a great degree of success.  


Mar 14, 2018

The Pilgrims look for a settlement location, the first baby is born in New England, and after a long, hard winter, they meet a Native American person who tells them more about the region of Patuxet.  


Mar 7, 2018

Getting to America was no easy task, and by the time they set sail they were already in a precarious situation.  They'd gone through or been forced to sell nearly half their food, lost a lot of their money, and were being financed by investors who themselves had virtually nothing.  They left, though, and 66 days...