A spirited discussion about energy, hosted by Newsweek's Howard Fineman.

The pilgrims set sail for New England aboard the Mayflower. The group of religious dissidents chartered the voyage in order to build a colony where they could have religious freedom. The colony they founded, in Plymouth Massachusetts, would follow Jamestown, Virginia to become the second successful English settlement in the New World. Their movement found its roots in Nottinghamshire, England in the late 16th Century. King Henry VIII had broken from Rome and established the Church of England 50 years earlier, but not all English parishioners subscribed to the idea of having their worship restricted by a government with ostensibly political motives. In 1608, the group tired of holding secret services and being arrested, and about 150 moved to Holland—first settling in Amsterdam, then the university town of Leiden. After about a decade, however, they felt their English culture slipping away and felt drawn toward missionary work, and began to negotiate for a colony patent in America. After a pit stop in Southampton and a change of ship, the party was ready for departure in Plymouth, England by the end of the summer. After a two-month journey through stormy seas, the Mayflower anchored off Cape Cod. Establishment of the colony would not happen for months, by which time half the settlers were dead from disease.

On the road as the Illinois senator conducts a summer campaign swing.