Christian nationalism was a flop when the Puritans tried it. See this famous Augustus Saint-Gaudens sculpture for information.

New England Puritans were hard-pressed by Native American warriors who knew how to fight in forests—and now had flintlock ...

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

An ordained Puritan minister, Chapin was my ninth great-grandfather — a colonial transplant ... the city’s Central Library and Christ Church Cathedral. I never gave it much notice — I ...

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 ...

Hutchinson's charges constituted a frontal attack on the spiritual authority of both the church and society. For Puritans ... most famous sermons from the colonial era, "Sinners in the Hands ...

On May 8, 1980, forty-five years ago, the World Health Organization, a part of the United Nations, announced that officials had eradicated smallpox from the world’s population. The last case ...

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