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 ...

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.

A group of scholars explored the history of the Mayflower Compact, the document signed by the Mayflower passengers shortly before their arrival in North America in 1620, and what lessons can be ...

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.

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 Heritage Foundation hosted a discussion about the Mayflower Compact, the document signed by the Mayflower passengers shortly before their arrival in North America in 1620. Scholars talked ...

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.

On Nov. 11, 1620, aboard the Mayflower anchored off the Massachusetts coast, 41 Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact, setting rules for their new settlement. In 1921 the Tomb of the Unknown Soldie… ...

“That day, the settlers wrote the Mayflower Compact. Signed by 41 men on board, the compact was an agreement to cooperate for the general good of the colony,” a statement from Plymouth 400 said.

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 ...

Stan Wollman and Jae Dunn of Plymouth, along with Al Rubega, Mike Heenan and Richard Howell, all of the New Plimmoth Gard, traveled Saturday to the place where the Mayflower Compact was signed in ...

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.