Mayflower

Think the story of the Pilgrims is just about Thanksgiving and funny hats? This 15-minute summary of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower reveals the brutal, complex, and surprising truth. You'll uncover the fifty-year saga that began with a treacherous voyage and a desperate alliance, but ended in one of colonial America's bloodiest wars. Discover the real story of the Mayflower Compact, the shifting loyalties between the English settlers and Native tribes, and the key figures whose choices forged a nation's violent birth. You'll learn how a fragile peace devolved into the devastating King Philip's War, reshaping the American continent and its people forever.

Nathaniel Philbrick is a National Book Award-winning historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist renowned for bringing early American history to life for a new generation of readers. A champion sailor and former director of the Egan Maritime Institute, his deep connection to Nantucket and the sea provides a unique, immersive perspective on the maritime world of the Pilgrims. This firsthand understanding of the ocean's power and peril enriches his masterful narrative of the Mayflower's fateful voyage and its complex aftermath.