WE CALL THEM the Pilgrims, faded by history into a faceless, irrelevant group of nameless religious radicals who came to America to worship God. Sometimes hailed as heros, other times denigrated as illiterate, who were these faded, faceless people who lived more than four hundred years ago?

In Saints and Strangers -- The Great American Story, Paulette Packard Johnson delves into the human-ness of the Pilgrims, and explores what it would have been like for the individuals who made the treacherous voyage into history.