Book Review: John G. Turner: They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and The Contest for American Liberty. Yale University Press, 2020 by Sorina GEORGESCU

“…Turner: They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and The Contest for American Liberty. …”
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From the “Beginning”: Anglo-American Settler Colonialism in New England by Ashley (Woody) Doane

“…My standpoint in writing this narrative is as a twelfth-generation descendant of Deacon John Doane, who arrived in Plymouth Colony circa 1630 and whose family history is intertwined with issues of settler colonial conquest and dispossession, enslavement, erasure, and the creation of myths of origin and possession. …”
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Transatlantic Monuments: On Memories and Ethics of Settler Histories by Adam Hjorthén

“…The first section of the article offers an anatomy of transatlantic monuments, outlining its key characteristics through a discussion of some prominent examples that range from Christopher Columbus to Leif Eriksson and the Plymouth Colony. In the second section, this typology is further explored through an in-depth analysis of the 1938 monument of the New Sweden colony (1638–1655) designed by Swedish sculptor Carl Milles. …”
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Queering American History by Emanuele Monaco

“… In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism, and interracial marriage. …”
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