The pursuit of becoming the “city on a hill” lighting the way for the Old World captured the imagination, will, and purpose ...

Few people in American history had less time ... Winthrop Square is a landmark in downtown Boston. The Puritan leader is the namesake of schools, squares, communities and memorials around ...

"There's now a complete consensus that the popular image of the Puritans is almost totally inaccurate," said Mary Beth Norton, a professor of American history at Cornell University and author of "In ...

Earliest Puritan history, 1558–1603 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Puritans were not content with the Anglican settlement and the established church. They believed that the English church ...

the book is well written, engaging, and brings Puritan studies into the twenty-first century. It would make an excellent choice for the classroom in courses on gender history, early American history, ...

The Puritan movement split over issues of ecclesiology in the course of the Westminster Assembly. In the course of the 1650s, the movement became further split in the course of a number of ...

As Greg Barnhisel reveals in “Code Name Puritan,” a life of the literary ... Yale in the 1920s and ’30s Pearson fell in love with American literature, at the time still a marginal subject ...

The first known UFO encounter in America was recorded in 1639 by pious Puritan and prolific journal-keeper John Winthrop. He is a foundational figure in the national pantheon and leader of the ...