Discover the 13 American colonies, their establishment by Great Britain, diverse characteristics, and their journey to unity ...

It’s incorrect to say that simply because people belonged to the same church, they agreed with one another, writes.

Instead of spending time reading books by other historians, Mark Valeri spent a decade on-and-off reading his way through the diaries, sermons, sermon notes, and ledger books of the New England ...

Indeed, several colonies chose a single church as their officially established religion, and these churches enjoyed many privileges not extended to other religious groups. For instance, the Anglican ...

The Pilgrims and Puritans of New England have always seemed like the most religious group among the early colonists. But one could hardly be English in the 17th century and not think about the ...

You might say that Patricia Bonomi, in her book Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America, picks up where Bailyn left off. He surveyed the literature of ...

Early settlers to the Massachusetts Bay Colony were not interested in religious freedom. They created a theocracy—a society led and bound by the rules of one religious sect.

Justification for entering the land. Many colonists described New England as an “Eden”. But in 1632 the early colonist Thomas Morton said the epidemic of 1616-19 had rendered it “a new found ...

The two men who almost derailed New England’s first colonies Published: November 21, 2016 10:17pm EST. ... who claimed that the Puritans had violated proper religious and governing practices.