The Arbella was the ship on which Massachusetts Bay Colony’s governor John Winthrop would deliver a sermon where he declared America to be a “city on a hill.” Rediscovered by scholars in the ...

Others pinpoint 1637 as the true origin of Thanksgiving, since the Massachusetts Bay Colony's governor, John Winthrop, declared a day to celebrate colonial soldiers who had just slaughtered ...

From John Hughes to Joseph Smith ... Catholic Spain was reduced to a second-string European power. As a young man, Winthrop became convinced that England was in trouble: Inflation coupled ...

Originally called North or New College it was named Winthrop Hall in 1847 in honor of John Winthrop, the first Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Among the first students to occupy this residence ...