Below are links to some of the classic 19th and early 20th century histories of the Pilgrims and Plymouth.  For books written by the Pilgrims themselves, and their contemporaries, see the Primary Sources page.  Since the copyrights have expired on these histories, they are available for free on Google Books and Archive.org.  While these histories are often outdated, they do contain a wealth of information and research, some of which is overlooked by modern-day historians.

• History of the Town of Plymouth, by James Thatcher (1832).
• Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers, by Alexander Young (1834).
• History of the Town of Duxbury, by Justin Winsor (1849).
• Pilgrim Memorials and Guide to Visitors to Plymouth Village, by William Russell (1851).
• The True Story of John Smyth, the Se-Baptist, by Henry Martyn Dexter (1881).
• Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth, by William T. Davis (1883).
• History of the Town of Plymouth, by William T. Davis (1885).
• Epitaphs from Old Burial Hill, by Bradford Kingman (1892).
• Handbook of Old Burial Hill, by Frank Herman Perkins (1896).
• Story of the Pilgrim Fathers, 1606-1623, by Edward Arbor (1897).
• The Pilgrim Fathers of New England and their Puritan Successors, by John Brown (1897).
• England and Holland of the Pilgrims, by Henry Martyn Dexter (1905).
• Pastor of the Pilgrims: A Biography of John Robinson, by Walter Burgess (1920).
• The Pilgrim's Press, by J. Rendel Harris and Stephen Jones (1920).
• Plymouth and the Pilgrims, by Arthur Lord (1920).
• Captain Myles Standish: His Lost Lands and Lancashire Connection, by Thomas Porteus (1920).