Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick.
Nathaniel Philbrick follows the voyage of the Mayflower and the history of Plymouth Colony into the conflict that overtook New England decades later. A familiar national origin story becomes a longer account of peril, settlement and war.
Read it for the difference between a founding myth and the history that surrounds it. The discussion begins with what changes when a story continues beyond the moment usually chosen as its ending.
