![]() ![]() ![]() Philbrick certainly cuts down to size the conservative and whiggish receptions of New England’s founding moreover than the new sanctimonious social justice propaganda. It isn’t that surprising, then, that he inevitably took up a tale of New England’s most contested historical moment: the founding. Nathaniel Philbrick made his bones as one of the preeminent historians of local New England writing about Nantucket Island, the New England whaling industry, and a literary defense of Moby-Dick. Mayflower was first published in 2006 and republished in 2020 to commemorate the 400 th anniversary of the arrival of the Mayflower at Plymouth Rock. ![]() Current hagiography and mythology concerning America’s founding goes something like this: God preordained an industrious and liberty-loving people, the Pilgrims and Puritans, to found a new nation that would advance the causes of liberty, progress, and civilization for the whole world European colonists and imperialists, moved by greed, landed in America and systematically wiped out the peaceful indigenous peoples then replaced them with slave labor to feed their greed and exploitation of the world. ![]()
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