The Mentor: Historic Spots of America, Vol. 1, Num. 32, Serial No. 32

A concise historical tour of several early American landmarks that connects their origins to larger European political and religious shifts, explaining how naval victory over Spain enabled Protestant colonization, how English charters and colonizing ventures led to settlements, and how those settlements endured hardship, sickness, and difficult relations with Indigenous peoples. The piece recounts the founding and survival of Jamestown and the Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth, notes remaining ruins and commemorative monuments, and considers settlers' motives, including desires for self-government and conflicts over religious practice, while surveying the remembered significance of these sites.