Two Ships by David S. Reynolds

7 out of 10

Two Ships ostensibly refers to English settlers voyaging to Jamestown and Plymouth.  More broadly, the phrase represents the separate courses of Cavaliers and Puritans throughout the 1600s, 1700s, and 1800s.  The two factions had different worldviews, different social structures, and often saw the other side as totally different people.  They took up arms against each other in the English Civil War.  And then again in the American Civil War.  Since Reconstruction, one could say that they are sailing on the same ship.  But ideological differences linger.