The Talks
Full edited transcripts of three public talks, in both languages, with background notes on every section. Each can be listened to section by section, or straight through.
Edited from the automatic captions of public videos, not verbatim records — each piece says so at the top and carries a table of corrected proper names. The original videos are on "In Their Own Words".
The First Winter After the Landing
A month at anchor off Cape Cod before they found a place to stand. That winter, half of them did not survive.
The Real Thanksgiving Story
The harvest gathering of 1621 and the holiday later built on top of it are two different things.
The Life of a Manuscript
Written between 1630 and 1650, lost to England, returned to Massachusetts only in 1897. This talk is about how we know what we know.