The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony

From: The Virginia Quarterly Review | Date: July 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony, by James Deetz and Patricia Scott Deetz.

This is the second major book on Plymouth Colony to appear recently. Like John D. Seelye's Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock (1998), it helps dispel many popular myths about the Pilgrims. The late James Deetz of the University of Virginia, a founder of modern American historical archeology, was the foremost expert on the archeology of Plymouth Colony and developed the first-person interpretive program at Plymouth Plantation. ...

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