America First: 100 Stories from Our Own History

Leif the Lucky, the swamp march to Vincennes, the Pony Express — a hundred true adventure stories from American history, told the way children begged to hear them in 1920.

Persecutions of the Pilgrims and Puritans

3 pages in this part of America First.

Persecutions of the Pilgrims and Puritans

When James I. became King of England, he tried to enforce obedience to one Church, with all its forms and ceremonies and beliefs. Other…

Persecutions of the Pilgrims and Puritans: Church

There were many people in England who were opposed to parts of the religious service and to many of the ecclesiastical ceremonies of the…

Persecutions of the Pilgrims and Puritans: Dutch

But the Puritans refused to give up their congregation, and they would neither conform to the King's Church nor bow to his will. After they…

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