founding of the United States of America is plagued by sweeping misconceptions; particularly, in regards to the first settlers. A classic mistake is the homogenization of the terms “Puritan” and “Pilgrim” to be used interchangeably. In this paper, four particular distinctions are made between the Puritan and the Pilgrim settlers of North America to provide a more precise understanding on English colonial history, as follows: the scholarly definitions of each, the religious contrasts, the different
“History is written by the victors”; a common phrase that doesn’t take into account who writes that history. Historians are the ones who get to put pen to paper or fingers to keys and set out their ideas and interpretations of what history is and what it means. Historians make use of historical evidence, primary sources such as; letters, books, documents or secondary sources i.e. other historians work, to lend credence to their interpretation of history. Without credible evidence history is just