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 ...

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The Mayflower Compact, signed 400 years ago this week, helped lay a foundation for America’s commitment to government by consent of the governed. In his famous Leviathan, the 17th-century theorist ...

A group of scholars meets this week to discuss the impact of the Mayflower Compact—signed 400 years ago last week, on Nov. 11, 1620—on the American concept of the rule of law. The Heritage Foundation ...

The Mayflower, a leaky 80-foot-long British cargo ship carrying 102 passengers who were determined to build a new society "for the glory of God," departed from Plymouth, England on this day in history ...

Exactly 400 years after 41 men in the galley of a ship called the Mayflower agreed to form a “civil body politic,” the public would do well to put the “civil” back into our self-government. The ...

After an arduous journey across the Atlantic Ocean in 1620, the colonists we call the Pilgrims were faced with a monumental decision: What to do next? Blown off course by massive storms, the weary ...

Part I was featured in the December 2020 issue. Go to saddlebagnotes.com to check out. Final arrangements were made, and two ships were acquired—the Mayflower and the Speedwell. The Mayflower and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alex Ledsom is a France-based contributor who covers travel. In 1620, the Mayflower ship set sail from Plymouth, England on ...

They arrived in the New World in November of 1620, exhausted and grateful, resolving to carve a better society from this harsh and unforgiving place. On the deck of the Mayflower, the ship that had ...