The Pilgrims
Explore the events that propelled a group of men and women across the Atlantic in 1620.
The Pilgrims American Experience
Explore the converging forces, circumstances, personalities and events that propelled a group of English men and women west across the Atlantic in 1620. The challenges they faced in making new lives for themselves still resonate almost 400 years later: the tensions of faith and freedom in American society, the separation of Church and State, and cultural encounters resulting from immigration.
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American Experience
American Experience, TV's most-watched history series, brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
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