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The Pilgrims' attack on a May Day celebration was a dress rehearsal for removing Native Americans

  • Written by Peter C. Mancall, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The Pilgrims' attack on a May Day celebration was a dress rehearsal for removing Native AmericansThe Puritans saw May Day celebrations as a test from God.Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Ever since the ancient Romans decided to honor the agricultural goddess Flora with lewd spectacles in the Circus Maximus, the beginning of May has signaled the coming of spring, a time of revival after a long, dark winter.

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