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Bill Potter; board member of PRF; states that Governor William Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantation is one of the cornerstone primary source

books of American history. The retelling has often been too simple, trite, or inclusive of myths. Historian R.A. Sheats has written a very appealing retelling of Bradford’s classic work, for young people… children are introduced to the commitment of the Pilgrims to biblical truth, courageous perseverance, and trust in God through terrible suffering. There are precious few history books published today that tell the truth about the past, and fewer still that rely on primary sources. If young people do not learn of their Christian past, they will neither

appreciate God’s Grace in the origins of our nation nor understand the gulf that has emerged in modern

times between godly culture and the crass materialism and depraved ethos that surrounds them daily.

The Pilgrims strove mightily against worldliness, held dominion over the wilderness, and raised families