It's a subtle but important difference. Unlike the Pilgrims, the Puritans, who arrived 10 years later, were not separatists. They had remained in the Church of England hoping to banish its ...

Over time, the Pilgrims who clung to Plymouth's rocky shores were absorbed into the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Like the Pilgrims, the Puritans believed that the Church of England ...

They were mostly the descendants of Puritans, having made their fortunes as American merchants, and they could not be described as egalitarian. Rather, they were the closest thing the United ...

When people think of “Halloween,” some of the imagery that comes to mind is people in costumes, jack-o-lanterns and candy.

Of those 200, there were 30 convictions and 19 executions. But mass accusations, trials, and executions in Salem could never have happened without the perfect storm of individual factors and ...

Elizabeth was able to deal with the Puritan threat in Parliament as she had the power to simply close Parliament if they tried to discuss issues she did not want them to. Some Puritans valued good ...

Puritan leaders believed firmly that nations, colonies and towns were all 'bodies politic', that is, living and organic social bodies. However, if a social body became distempered because of scarce ...

They were come down in their lighter [a small barge ... Winthrop Square is a landmark in downtown Boston. The Puritan leader is the namesake of schools, squares, communities and memorials around ...

I think we all agree that Jilly Cooper is right on life’s vital topics: dogs, horses, chaps and sex. So it’s no surprise ...

As Greg Barnhisel reveals in “Code Name Puritan,” a life of the literary scholar and World War II spymaster, most of ...

Indeed. America's founding fathers operated in a strictly white supremacist, patriarchal world and therefore would have ...

Since 1973, Puritan’s Pride has produced more than 1,200 vitamins and supplements targeted for a variety of health and wellness needs. Puritan’s Pride states its mission is to provide the ...