Joshua Horn

Historian, Programmer

About Me

Currently working on a new full-length biography of the Pilgrim and American founding father William Bradford.

I live in Youngsville, NC with my wife and children in a house we built ourselves. I work as a computer programmer at Datatek, Inc. I'm a member of Reformation Baptist Church, and participate on the church podcast and on the board of the church's ministry in Nigeria.

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Past Projects

What I've Been Reading

"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character - 3 stars

"What Do You Care What Other People Think?" by Richard P. Feynman Compared with Feynman's first autobiography, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman", this definitely feels like a ...

Now It Can Be Told - 4 stars

Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs I've seen this book quoted or referenced quite a few times in WW1 materials. It by a British WWI correspondent, ...

STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS, TRAVELLERS AND SOJOURNERS. Leiden and the Foundations of Plymouth Plantation - 4 stars

STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS, TRAVELLERS AND SOJOURNERS. Leiden and... by Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs Jeremy Bangs was, in my opinion, the greatest Pilgrim scholar of the last half century. This book is the ...

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Recent Articles

The Mystery of a Missing Bradford Letter

I recently came across a snippet from a letter by Bradford that I’ve never seen before, and I’m interested to see whether there’s anyone out there ...

On Bradford’s Trail: Amsterdam

The Insane Killer of John Wilkes Booth

We explore the closing days of the Civil War, when the victorious president Abraham Lincoln was struck down by the famous actor John Wilkes Booth. We ...

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