The Separatists who founded Plymouth Colony set out to build God’s perfect community—and immediately met with obstacles. After fleeing England, ditching the Dutch, and surviving a miserable Mayflower voyage, they landed way off course and wrote the surprisingly secular, and later influential, Mayflower Compact to keep the peace. What followed was an exhausting exploration, stolen corn, and divine excuses, as they laid the shaky, ironic groundwork for America’s “city upon a hill." 

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The 2 major sources used for this episode series are:

• Mayflower: Voyage, Community, War by Nathaniel Philbrick, published in 2007 by Penguin Books
• This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving by David J. Silverman, published in 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing

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They left England for “religious freedom”… but only for themselves. As we explore the deep roots causes of the American War for Independence, which started in Massachusetts, we dive into the real, detailed story of the Mayflower Pilgrims — from sneaking out of England and clashing with the Dutch to surviving a leaky ship and founding Plymouth Colony. It’s a tale of faith, stubbornness, irony, and the birth of unique personality- one that would, generations later, influence the founding of a nation. 

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The 2 major sources used for this episode series are:

• Mayflower: Voyage, Community, War by Nathaniel Philbrick, published in 2007 by Penguin Books
• This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving by David J. Silverman, published in 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing

To get updates and other content, follow @thecuriousalexjones on Instagram and Threads.

The definition of "curiosity":  1. A strong desire to know or learn something or 2. A strange or unusual object or fact.

This podcast is all about my passion for learning and what I am currently learning about. And I have to do something with all that information! So if you would like to learn some new things, please follow!

Learn more by following @thecuriousalexjones on Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky

The 2 major sources used for the upcoming episode series are:

• Mayflower: Voyage, Community, War by Nathaniel Philbrick, published in 2007 by Penguin Books
• This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving by David J. Silverman, published in 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing

To get updates and other content, follow @thecuriousalexjones on Instagram and Threads.