On this special Thanksgiving episode, we are joined by historian Glenn Sunshine, who takes us back to Plymouth where 4 of the original 18 women on the Mayflower settled with their husbands and children. Women were essential to this original European colony. They demonstrated shocking emotional and physical resolve! Here is a rich discussion about the historical value of women at home, whose strength built and sustained societies.
Columbanus (540-615): An Irish Missionary Monk
In the early middle ages (roughly AD 500-1000), European civilization was in serious decline. The climate had gotten colder and wetter, resulting in a shorter growing season and declining population. People moved out of the cities into the countryside to survive, and...
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