Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620 by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (Wikimedia) Share 23 Comments Listen. By Rich Lowry. About Rich Lowry; Follow Rich Lowry on X; November 24, 2016 1:00 AM.

We're thankful that Pilgrims — including the famous forebear of an Arizona Daily Star editor — had the wisdom to create this social contract.

An imagining of the landing of the Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock in 1620 is depicted in an engraving by Joseph Andrews (1806-1873) after a painting by P.F. Rothermel (1812-1895), 1869.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Driven far off course by gales and rough seas as they crossed the Atlantic in the fall of 1620, the Mayflower’s 102 passengers made landfall at a spot much farther north than they had planned.

The Mayflower Compact Plimoth Patuxet Deputy Executive Director Richard Pickering explained how the Pilgrims landed in New England. He talked about the creation, and significance of, the Mayflower ...

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.