The Pilgrims - A Brief Overview from Beginning to the End

History Encounters

Publisher: Ched

Summary

History Encounters unearths the greatest stories with the major events from The Pilgrims to expand reader horizons for readers to be best informed.

For over two centuries, the Pilgrims’ story was one told around the dinner table every year at Thanksgiving, and the people in that story became something of a myth. Yet the Pilgrims were just as real as you or me, and in 1620, they journeyed across the Atlantic to America, where they came to establish the second British colony in the New World.

The narrative of the Pilgrims has changed somewhat in the last fifty years. Since the 1970s, people have been asking questions about the second narrative, the narrative of the Wampanoag people, the native Americans who sat down opposite the Pilgrims that very first Thanksgiving all those hundreds of years ago. Each of these narratives is as important as the other, and the Pilgrims can’t really be understood without examining them in the context of the Wampanoag people and the direct impact both parties had on one another.

Learning about history will keep you perceptive and make sure to not repeat mistakes that others made in the past. The different stories in this series will show the readers that history should not just be seen from one perspective, but from the different eyes of the groups of people involved. You never know, you might finally understand their choices, their actions and their reactions.

In this historical series, you will discover:

The history of different countries and cultures
The inner workings of major historical turning points in different countries.
Different perspectives of major events in history
The reasons behind different wars or battles throughout history

These historical series are for anyone who wants to learn fun, exciting and influential facts of what happened years before their time. Do you want to learn history through a multitude of different eyes?
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Available since: 02/25/2024.

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