He arrived in America with the Puritans in 1624 and helped co-found the settlement of Merrymount, which is now Quincy, ...

Us-versus-them thinking. High-control habits. An obsession with punishment. Some aspects of the MAGA movement are a lot older ...

The Puritans were a group behind the religious ideology known as “Puritanism”, a type of early modern Reformed Protestantism that was born within the Church of England.

Jane Kamensky is the president and CEO of Monticello and the author of “A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton ...

After a long and bloody civil war that had pitted the religious militants known as the Puritans against the Stuart monarchy, the royals were once again in power in England, and Charles II and his ...

When Christianity became state-sponsored under leaders such as Constantine and Theodosius, governments systematically ...

A few weeks ago a story of mine about the Stockbridge Indians appeared, and now we turn to the Brothertown Indians, who had a ...

These New Puritans bring their Magic Resonator Piano and a host of supporting musicians to The Barbican for Field Of Reeds Expanded. Tim Burrows examines their quest to find "the elegiac and the ...

The black-clad, steeple-hatted Puritan, walking warily to church with Bible in hand and musket on shoulder, is an enduring image of New England’s formative colonial era. In “The Wars of the ...

Authors Jeffery Dale Lofton and Scott Romine have different takes on the South, but they agree that the Southern identity is ...