The Landing of the Pilgrims High ideals in the conduct of life are what survive, and that is why the Pilgrim Narrative stands forth in the pages of every history as one of the great events of all time. Senator Lodge, at the dedication of the Pilgrim Monument at Provincetown, August 5th 1910.
Historiography then is value-influenced construction of past reality.
It bears repeating that the values influencing the construction are many and varied. Some are shared widely by members of society, while others are restricted to special interest groups. Some are idiosyncratic, but uncritically become accepted by the lay public . . . . James Deetz, History and Archaeological Theory , American Antiquity Vol. Senator Lodge's statement appears on the inside cover of Albert Addison's 1911 text, which follows a tradition of building and perpetuating, through text and images, an American myth of national origins.