why dee we talk about the pilgrims and puritans so much? the people who write history mostly come from new england in the 19th century. that's one -- one sort of reason. all right. so then you get these massive commemorations of the pilgrims. and we looked at these slides before. i'm going to go very quickly through these. but this is just to remind you these sorts of images, these sorts of poems begin to emerge en masse in the 19th century. felicia hammonds' landing of the pilgrim fathers in new england and the last stands -- call it holy ground, the soil where first they trod, they left unsustained what there they found freedom to worship god. you get the sense in which the coming of the pilgrims began something totally new in the world. and what that newness was had to do with religion, religious liberty, civil liberty, all the ways you can put together freedom and god began with the pilgrims and the puritans in new england. this thing totally new. and so of course you get also all these paintings, right, that celebrate them. we looked a

so what i'm going to ask that you do right now is just repeat after me and become good puritans. and listen to what we are doing. listen to what we are saying and how it encourages conformity and the connection that are there between the church body and the state. can you tell i do a lot of weddings in my real life? so just repeat after me. i shall be truly loyal. >> i shall be truly loyal. >> to the state and government of england as it now stands. >> to the state and government of england as it now stands. >> i shall not speak or do. >> i shall not speak or do. >> device or advise. >> devise or advise. >> anything or things, acts or acts. >> anything or things, acts or acts. >> that's a hard one. directly or indirectly by land or water. >> directly or indirectly by land or water. >> that shall or may tend to the destruction or overthrow. >> that shall or may tend to the destruction or overthrow. >> of the plantation of new plymouth. >> of the plantation of new plymouth. >> neither shall i suffer the same to be spoken or done. >> neither shall i suffer the same to be spoken or d

you know the difference between the separatists in plymouth and the puritans in boston? separatists wanted to separate from the church, not the world. they wanted to get away from a worship they thought was deformed. they didn't decision like their neighbors. they wanted to be with them socially and do business with them. puritans, they were willing to worship with their neighbors the entire time they despised them. they only -- they wanted to withdraw from the world but not the church. what thomas macy and his family may have been experienced after this moment of entertaining these four quakers who were caught in a horrific summer storm, that they were now in the public eye much more than before. we talked about the rights of parents in the reformed christian churches to bind and loose for children and have children baptized as infants. a baptist would have said, that is not true baptism. you must express your faith before you are immersed and not a baby sprinkled. we know based on the record that if, indeed, a baptist, thomas macy drew no attention to himself, many bap

i see that is the puritans. the puritans were the ones who arrived in boston a decade after the sailing of the mayflower, and quickly took over new england. in one year, plymouth colony goes from the only settlement english settlement in the region to being a backwater. what is known as the great migration brought in thousands into the boston area, and quickly spread not only through massachusetts and maine and new hampshire but to connecticut. it was the puritans who were really the motivators behind the pequot war. plymouth colony, their soldiers did not arrive in time to be part of the conflict, and that may have been intended. i see that conflict as sort of being the puritan version of what's agus it. a conflict that would radically change the balance of power, particularly among the native groups in the region, and would anticipate in many troubling ways what would happen next. because the scale of what happened in the pequot war was very different. hundreds of pequot men, women and children would die, be m

there were very staunch practitioners of the puritan faith. so they were allowed back into england, by james the first, who then gave them his blessing, to get them out of the country. he said they could go to the new world. they could go to the americas. providing i think he said, that they treated themselves respectably. they were in and out of england and then down to the ships. fortunately, not being chased or executed, by the king, but gently encouraged to go somewhere else. thank you so much. >> thank you jen. >> i am richard pickering, deputy executive director of plymouth and texan museums, and we are at state peer in plymouth, massachusetts.

so the puritans came from places like scroovy manor where they set up a place of worship from holland. they would have had people come from holland, join the ship, possibly in london. so plymouth would have been their final calling port, and many of them stayed in some of the buildings. they were making arrangements for what to do with the passengers who were on board the speedwell who obviously weren't going to challenge the speedwell. some of them went back home, some of them went back to holland and the rest got onto the very crowded mayflower. it would have been very unfamiliar and quite an alien place to those people who came from a country background. >> how long had most of them been away from england before they set sail? >> oh, many years. many years. they had tried escaping once before but were captured and brought before the king and were chastised, but then they managed to get away to leyden where people like william brewster, william bradford, guys who were very staunch practitioners of the puritan faith. they were led back into england by james i, who then gave them his

the winslows and pelhams were supporters of the puritans and cromwell. we see penelope here and she's dressed very similarly to the wife and daughter of king charles i. on the left is queen henrietta maria. we see the fabrics that penelope is wearing are very similar to those worn by henrietta maria. princess mary stewart, charles's daughter on the right of penelope, the gold choker necklace, her hairstyle and her hood are very similar to mary stewart's. so she's clearly aligning herself with the upper echelons of society. these portraits were shipped back to plymouth colony, to marshfield where the winslow's homes were, and they were maintained by the family for generations. until the late 1800s, when they were donated to plymouth hall museum. you may be familiar with it. it has the preeminent collection of pilgrim possessions. pilgrim hall museum has many other winslow possessions including several which are associated with penelope. and the most iconic of these is this shoe. so this was formerly a salmon pink color. you can see it has very elaborate s

we know that massachusetts bay was settled by people whom we call the puritans. they wanted to purify the church of england. and plymouth colony was settled by separatists who wanted to separate from the church of england both groups were reformed protestants who had a lot of common viewpoints. basically, they thought that individuals should have a direct relationship with god is mediated through scripture. and when we think of puritans and pilgrims, you know, we have these lingering stereotypes of them as being very sober serious people and when we take a look at these portraits, they would seem to confirm our ideas. however, we need to take a closer look so we see josiah and edward wearing black and we think that's because it's a, you know, serious sober color. however black was very fashionable at the time this these portraits were done with 1651 we know by the date on edwards letter, but we don't know who the artist was. so black was very fashionable. and also we they are distinguishing themselves dressing up their outfits with these white starch white collar

i should say of the of the puritan faith. and so they they were allowed back into england by by james the first who then gave them his blessing to get them out of the country that he said that they could go to the new world. they could go to the americas and providing. i think he said something that providing me they they carried himself respectively. so he was he was actually glad to see the back of them. but but they were in and out of england and then down to the the ships. fortunately not being chased or executed by the king but gently encouraged to go somewhere else. professor bob stem. thank you so much great. great, pleasure. thank you, jen. weeknights this month. we're featuring american history tv programs as a preview of what's available every weekend on c-span 3 friday night milton jones recalls his experiences as a us marine during the vietnam war. he talks about his initial reluctance to serve in vietnam and his journey to meet his unit in the case on part of vietnam war oral histories conducted by the atlanta hi

. >> founded in the early 17th century the massachusetts bay colony had a predominantly puritan hospitalization. up next on american history tv we hear a presentation from the nantucket historical association about the history of this new england settlement and the tumultuous period when quaker missionaries arrived.

how do we fix the bad science and the puritanism? >> i'm going to come back because it's not just on the right sometimes. the right has its own misinformation. especially the vaccines, which are excellent. there's been a consistent campaign painting them as not great when they are. we also have other problems that i think are common across the political spectrum. after a year epidemiology, outdoors, beaches and parks are much safer. and we still have places that are fighting over whether to keep a local park or, you know, an open beach open, like a local beach. people are being shamed for being outdoors, which is part of the bad science. and that can cut across the political spectrum. the other one i like to talk about is that we've been acting like it's the fault of the bad behavior that people exhibit, which is not false completely. there are clearly irresponsible people. but if you look at the breakdown of covid victims in this country, it is primarily people in primarily minority, black people, hispanic, essential workers. blamin

it's been interesting to see some on the left who normally wouldn't be so puritanic al are being puritanical. howie: there were a couple leaked stories saying gaetz might resign to join news max. the media consensus is the congressman hasn't helped himself with the round of media interviews, especially going on tucker carlson's show. >> he's a lawyer. he went to law school and when he came out and specifically said it's verifyabley false that i have traveled with a 17-year-old woman, of course the media's going to try to tease out legalese in here, number one, is he just denying that he traveled with her and why do you call a 17-year-old who is a minor a woman. putting that aside, he went out there to defend himself. again, we have to wait for the details. i would simply say that you've got a very -- as kat said, a polarizing figure rights now who has gone out there and is now exposed in certain cases of -- there are two things that make this legitimate, as a news story. number one, it came not from biden's attorney general but from donald trump's attorney general. if donald trump is batman,

that includes the ecumenical leaders and it came to be known as puritanism or a competing perspective of libertarians and traditionalists, although never without critics and that taught libertarians andri traditionalis that they needed each other and that american conservatism must not become sectarian in nature. from this perspective held up pretty well during the era of covid-19 and for a time thereafter. but about five years ago the fusionist alliance and the institutional manifestations inside the beltway came under blistering attacks from the populist corruption is therefore associated particularly with donald trump and since that time conservative movement in america has been a house divided engaged in an often languorous tug-of-war and different observers use different contending factions, the establishment versus the outsiders, institutionalized inside the beltway who wish to govern and those outside the beltway that wish to drain the swamp, then tankers that talk about the language of public policy versus militants who employ the combative language of war and within the past

frameworks for people especially and then sex and conservatives would make fun of it that is that left-wing puritanism. with that romantic landscape to tear down the structures to organize sexual relations they want to structures that is a conservative impulse. conservatives should be constructed of those structures were deliver what they promise and religious conservatives should be skeptical that woke us could focus as a religion incredibly strong moralism but it isn't clear what the moral vision is rooted or the story of the universe with no supervening to balance the scales and the humanitarian aside the great awakening would produce institutions and families and marriages and the intergenerational transmission of baptist communities in a more extreme forms of christian scientist i am pretty skeptical. >> if this is chiefly performative and then to motivate real action. so as the escape from decadence does this have to be collective at the level of society are more constructive to think as society being communities and we want to do with the intellectual resources that institutional capacity for o

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simply un-american, despite the fact that some of the original english settlers of this country, the puritans, were religious refugees. today, syrian refugees face a similar reaction. to some europeans, these refugees seem uneuropean, for reasons of culture, religion and language. and in europe and the united states, the attacks in paris, brussels, san bernardino, california, and orlando, florida have people fearing people could be radicals, forgetting those refugees are some of the first victims of the islamic state. here it's a powerful connection to the perception of vietnamese refugees as potential communist infiltrators when they were ones who were fleeing persecution at the hands of communists in asia. i continue here. because the judgments have been rendered on many who had been cast out or fled, it's important for those of us who were refugees to remind the world of what our experiences mean. a vietnamese colleague of mine once jokingly referred to his journey from refugee to boigeuos. when i told him i was a refugee, he said you don't look like one. he was right. we can be invisible

they did not receive a very cordial welcome, as the puritan populist believed all irish work "unclean, unwholesome, and disgusting papists." most of these left boston to settle in northern central and western new england, where it names like belfast, dublin and londonderry in new hampshire reflect the origins of their founders. one who remained with his congregants was the reverend john way hand who go to church -- moyhand who built a church where the event that explained the street name changing to federal street took place. i am sure many of you know where it federal street is in a boston. another development that came at this time in 1737 was the foundation of the charitable irish society of boston by a group of 26 immigrants who wanted to make sure their friends and family arriving would be taken care of and they engaged in philanthropic work to help them get settled if they fell on hard times to help them out. that society is still in existence and continues to do work in helping immigrants arrived to this very day. here we have an artistic representation of the front just peace

, parameters in the republican party, how he's created a permission structure, because he was not a puritan, because he got away with so much stuff from the "access hollywood" video to paying off a porn star, and so, matt gaetz has very explicitly said that donald trump has made it easier for someone like him to live the life that he was living, and he says over and over again, i am not a monk. i'm a congressman. which, of course, echos the trumpist line that you elect a president, not a preacher. so, in many ways, matt gaetz is very much a creature of this new trumpfied right in which character really doesn't matter as long as you hit the right culture war buttons. >> congresswoman edwards, let's talk about president biden's infrastructure bill. you were on the transportation and infrastructure committee when you served in congress, so give us a sense right now of how far-reaching this bill is, particularly compared to previous efforts. >> well, i think it's really comprehensive. both to deal with the existing infrastructure problems that we have, whether it's our roads and bridges, our wa

at the base about and regulation are conservatives make fun of this and say this is just left-wing puritan. that's exactly. people often. [inaudible] in a romantic landscape tore down the structures that used to organize sexual relations they are unhappyua there. they want new structures that in a weird way is a conservative impulse. i think then the challenge is, i think conservatives should be skeptical of the specific structures constructed will actually deliver what they promised. i think the religious conservatives should be particularly skeptical that awoken this can dysfunction as religion and full print hesitant credibly strong moralism. it is not not clear what moral vision is rooted in. what kind of story about the universe sprayed you end up with a sense of openness is about guilt and sin, confession is not enough. you cannot figure out how you get there forgiveness because there is no sort of superveningo deity to balance the scale. then there's also questions about the humanitarian side of this. like the original great awakenings would produce institutions, churches those supp

he is conscious when he says virginia doesn't matter, puritans matter. why do they matter? because they wrote it down. he thinks about them because they wrote. any other last questions or comments for today? okay. i want to leave a little time to hand back your papers. we will wrap it up. >>> weeknights, we are featuring american history tv programs as a preview of what's available every weekend on cspan3. milton jones recalls his experiences as a u.s. marine during the vietnam war. he talks about his reluctance to serve in vietnam and his journey to meet his unit. part of vietnam war oral histories. watch tonight, beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern. enjoy american history tv every weekend on cspan3. >>> american history tv on cspan3, exploring the people and events that tell the american story every weekend. 60 years ago this weekend, more than 1,400 cia-trained cuban exiles launched a failed invasion to overthrow fidel castro's government at the bay of pigs. live saturday at 9:00 a.m. history, on american history tv. we will look back at the invasion and its consequences with