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Abrams, Ann Uhry. The Pilgrims and Pocohontas: Rival Myths of American Origins. Boulder: Westview Press, 1999.

Atkins, Scott. The American Sense of Puritan. February 2000. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/puritan/purmain.html

Baker, James W. Pilgrim Myths and Realities. April 2000. http://www.plimoth.org/Library/pilmyth.htm [Archived]

Bartlett, Robert M. The Faith of the Pilgrims: An American Heritage. New York: United Church Press, 1998.

Bartlett, Robert M. The Pilgrim Way. Philadelphia: United Church Press, 1971.

Bartlett, William H. The Pilgrim Fathers: The Founders of New England in the Reign of James the First. London: Arthur Hall, Virtue and Co., 1853.

Baym, Nina. "Early Histories of American Literature: A Chapter in the Institution of New England." American Literary History 13 (1989): 459-88.

Baym, Nina. Feminism and American Literary History: Essays. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1992.

BFI//Monthly Film Bulletin. January 1953: 5.

Bradford's History "Of Plimoth Plantation." From the Original Manuscript. With a Report on the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts. Printed under the Direction of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, by Order o

Bradford, William. Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647. New York: Random House, 1981.

Brumm, Ursula. "Did the Pilgrims Fall Upon Their Knees When They Arrived in the New World? Art and History in the Ninth Chapter, Book One, of Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation." Early American Literature 12 (1977): 27-34.

Burgoyne, Robert. Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at History. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1997.

Catholic World. December 1952: 223.

The Christian Century. 17 December 1952: 1487.

Craven, Wesley Frank. The Colonies in Transition: 1620-1713. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.

Crowther, Bosley. "'Plymouth Adventure', a Vivid Portrayal of a Pilgrim Voyage." The New York Times 14 November 1952: 20.

Daly, Robert. "William Bradford's Vision of History." American Literature 44 (1973): 357-69.

Dawson, Jan. The Unusable Past: American Puritan Tradition. 1830 to 1930. California: Scholars Press, 1984.

Deschner, Donald. The Films of Spencer Tracy. Secaucus:Citadel Press, 1972: 213-14.

Dillon, Francis. The Pilgrims: Their Journeys & Their World. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975.

Erickson, Hal. The Plymouth Adventure. All Movie Guide. http://wm04.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll

Film Daily. 20 October 1952: 6.

Fleming, Thomas J. One Small Candle: The Pilgrims' First Year in America. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1964.

Franklin, Wayne. Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers: The Diligent Writers of Early America. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1979.

Freeman, Marilla Waite, Chairman, Motion Picture Review Committee, American Library Association. New Films from Books. Library Journal 1 December 1952: 2066.

"Fun Aboard the Mayflower." Time 9 June 1952: 102.

Gay, Peter. Loss of Mastery: Puritan Historians in Colonial America. Berkeley: U of Calfornia, 1966.

Gebler, Ernest. The Plymouth Adventure: A Chronicle Novel of the Voyage of the Mayflower. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950.

Gill, Crispin. Mayflower Remembered: A History of the Plymouth Pilgrims. New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1970.

Griffis,William Eliot. Young People's History of the Pilgrims. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920.

Heaton, Vernon. The Mayflower. New York: Mayflower Books, 1980.

Hollywood Reporter. 20 October 1952: 3.

Howard, Alan B. "Art and History in Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation." William and Mary Quarterly 28 (1971): 237-66.

Kammen, Michael. Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.

Langdon, George D., Jr. Pilgrim Colony: A History of New Plymouth [1620-1692]. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956.

Lodge, Henry Cabot. Senate Documents. Vol. 6, 66th Congress, 3d Session, December 6, 1920-March 4, 1921. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1921.

Matthews, Albert. "The Term Pilgrim Fathers." Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts 17 (1895): 293-391.

McCalls. December 1952: 10-11.

Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Story of the Old Colony of Plymouth [1620-1692]. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.

Motion Picture Herald Product Digest. 25 October 1952: 1551.

Mourt's Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. Edited from the original printing of 1622, with introduction and notes by Dwight B. Heath. New York: Corinth Books, 1993.

Nathan, Paul S. "Books into Films." Publishers' Weekly October 1952: 1808.

Newsweek 1 December 1952: 82.

O'Connor, John E., and Martin A. Jackson, eds. American History/American Film:Interpreting the Hollywood. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1979.

Partenheimer, David. "Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation: 1620-1647." The Explicator 56 (1998): 121-23.

"Pilgrims' Progress." Commonwealth 5 December 1952: 224.

Pitts, Michael R. Hollywood and American History: A Filmography of Over 250 Motion Pictures Depicting U.S. History. London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1984.

Plimoth-on-Web http://www.plimoth.org/Museum/museum.htm [Archived]

The Plymouth Colony Archive Project http://etext.virginia.edu/users/deetz/

Read, David. "Silent Partners: Historical Representation in William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation." Early American Literature 33 (1998): 291-314.

Rollins, Peter C. The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past. New York: Columbia UP, 2003.

Rosenmeier, Jesper. "'With My Owne Eyes': William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation." Typology and Early American Literature. Ed. Sacvan Bercovitch. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1972.

Rosenstone, Robert. Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1995.

Seelye, John. Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1999.

Smith, Bradford. Bradford of Plymouth Plantation. Philadelphia: J.B.Lippincott Company, 1951.

Sobchack, Vivian. The Insistent Fringe: Moving Images and the Palimpsest of Historical Consciousness. 19 April 1999. http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr0499/vsfr6b.htm

The Spectator. 6 February 1953: 149.

Standish, David. "Myles & Me." Smithsonian 30:12 (2000): 127-40.

Steele, Ashbel (Rev., A.M.). Chief of the Pilgrims: or The Life and Time of William Brewster, Ruling Elder of the Pilgrim Company That Founded New Plymouth, the Parent Colony of New England, in 1620. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co., 185

Stevens, Peter F. The Mayflower Murderer & Other Forgotten Firsts in American History. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1993.

The Tattler. 18 February 1953: 284.

Theatre Arts. December 1952: 84.

Time. 24 November 1952: 108.

Toplin, Robert Brent. History by Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past. Chicago: U of Illinois, 1996.

Usher, Roland G. The Pilgrims and Their History. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1918.

Webster, Daniel. Speeches. The United States Senate, 1851.

Wenska, Walter P. "Bradford's Two Histories: Pattern and Paradigm in Of Plymouth Plantation." Early American Literature 13 (1978): 151-64.

Willison, George F. Saints and Strangers. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1945.

Willison, George F. The Pilgrim Reader: The Story of the Pilgrims as Told by Themselves & Their Contemporaries, Friendly and Unfriendly. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953.