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Plymouth Plantation / Mayflower Compact Term Paper

" Plymouth Rock seems "less a monument to the Pilgrims' First Landing than to America's relentless pursuit of a usable past..." Bush quotes again from Sahlins. Then the author adds, "We all want a piece of the Rock." No matter that Plymouth Rock has perhaps been used at various times as a symbol of America's past; what is important is not the rock (or the fact that it has been chipped away), but rather what is vitally important is Bradford's remarkable historical journal, and the Mayflower Compact itself. America, the symbol known throughout the world for

"From of Plymouth Plantation." The Norton Anthology of American
Literature. Ed. Nina Baym. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 156-197.

Bush, Sargent. "America's Origin Myth: Remembering Plymouth Rock." American

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Retrieved 11 February 2007 at http://www.pilgrimhall.org/bradjour.htm.

Raible, Chris. "Mayflower compact & family compact." Beaver. 76.1 (1996): 22-27.

Sargent, Mark L. "The Conservative covenant: The rise of the Mayflower Compact in American Myth." The New England Quarterly 61.2 (1988): 233-251.

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Bradford, William. "From of Plymouth Plantation." The Norton Anthology of American

Literature. Ed. Nina Baym. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 156-197.

Bush, Sargent. "America's Origin Myth: Remembering Plymouth Rock." American

Literary History 12.4 (2000): 745-756.
Retrieved 11 February 2007 at http://www.pilgrimhall.org/bradjour.htm.
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