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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

There are many spirited spots in Massachusetts, but none has the distinction of being one of the top ten most haunted ...

The Puritan Backroom grew out of an ice cream and candy company.Credit...Kieran Kesner for The New York Times Like many stories about dishes that became touchstones of American cooking ...

Diana Butler Bass, an author, historian and public theologian, spoke about Christian nationalism during a recent appearance ...