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 ...

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 ...

Just over four centuries ago, 102 men, women and children set sail on the Mayflower, a Virginia Company merchant ship from England bound for the New World. While the passengers had no idea what their ...

Note to readers: Arizona Daily Star copy editor Myles Standish is the great-great-great-gr­eat-great-great-great­-great-grandson of Myles Standish, who was among the 41 men who signed the Mayflower ...

Driven far off course by gales and rough seas as they crossed the Atlantic in the fall of 1620, the Mayflower’s 102 passengers made landfall at a spot much farther north than they had planned. They ...

Most of us have probably not even thought about the Mayflower Compact since elementary school. The Compact was the document drawn up by the passengers on the ship "Mayflower" after it reached what was ...

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 ...

Each week, The Spokesman-Review examines one question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens. Today’s question: Many documents influenced the U.S.

The Minnesota Law Library’s upcoming exhibit and Continuing Legal Education program will transport visitors to the development of the first framework of government in a future United States — one that ...

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If this were any ordinary year — instead of one where Thanksgiving celebrations are miniaturized — there would be celebrations and fireworks to mark the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower Compact this ...

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. On November 11, 1620, English settlers arrived in the New World seeking religious freedom. But when the Pilgrims landed near Cape Cod, Massachusetts, they quickly realized they ...