ERICKSON: The Puritan Work Ethic

Four hundred years ago, the religious dissidents we know as the Pilgrims began arriving in New England. Just as The New York Times has decided to engage in revisionist history of our nation’s founding with its “1619 Project,” this past week, USA Today tried the same with Thanksgiving.

In all the revisionist readings of American history, what the progressive reeducators of our history downplay is that great marvel carried into the New World in New England after the brutal winter of 1620 into 1621.