In 1630 William Bradford (1590-1657), who had arrived at the Wampanoag community at Patuxet a decade earlier, began to write a history of Plymouth. It was the first colony the English managed to plant ...

For Thanksgiving, we enjoy sharing the story of how changing economic incentives influenced the English colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts, to which we trace the holiday. Like many economists, we have ...

PLYMOUTH – History never sleeps in a tourist town. But the museums do catch some shut-eye every now and then. Plymouth Rock forever weathers the storms of winter in its portico on the waterfront, ...

If you don’t know the story of Merrymount, the long-ago, mostly-forgotten colony founded in parallel with — and in rivalry to — the Plymouth Colony, way back in 1627, hang on to tricorn your hat.