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 ...

But that image is a false one, scholars say. Some see Puritans planting the seeds of such core American values as industriousness, idealism and faith more than a century before the Declaration of ...

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

But Americans have made the genre their own, and despite the universal, border-crossing fears of death, pain, and decay that ...

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

The origins of Thanksgiving can be traced back to the Pilgrims, a group of English Puritans who sought religious freedom in the New World. After a perilous transatlantic journey, they landed at ...

it's an insightful biography of an unassuming literary scholar—and spy—who transformed postwar American culture. Greg Barnhisel, author of " Code Name Puritan" and a professor at Duquesne ...

Seven Vlads were born in 1995, its first occurrence. At its peak, 26 were born in 2004, the year Dominican-born baseball ...