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 ...

The Mayflower Compact 400 Years Later. Written to stave off mutiny among the Pilgrims in 1620, the document remains a foundational example of democracy. By . John G. Turner. Share. Resize.

Sept. 12, 2020: Mayflower II Gala, Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum, Provincetown. A gala commemorating the signing of the Mayflower Compact, complete with food, drinks, and historical ...

The Mayflower Compact was revolutionary in that it was the first example of government by consent of the governed in the New World. The foundational ideals of liberty and self-government ...

In an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation, participants examined the Mayflower Compact and other new laws the settlers agreed upon when they arrived in 1620. The panelists discussed the basis ...

The Mayflower Compact is now considered the first “constitution” of what would, more than 150 years later, become the United States of America.

She accurately noted that before the Mayflower Compact was signed on November 11, the Strangers — who made up a third of the group — were ready to mutiny, ...

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 ...

With the Thanksgiving season upon us, a group of scholars is meeting today to discuss the Mayflower Compact, in a webinar series honoring the 400th anniversary of the signing of this ...

A copy of the Mayflower Compact is posted on the entrance to the Mayflower II, in Plymouth. The first colonists actually arrived in Provincetown, it's believed, not Plymouth, four centuries ago.

On December 18, 1620, the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Harbor. That was 399 years ago! Sorry readers, I got excited and didn’t want to wait until December 2020 to talk about this historic event.