Liberals still haven't awakened from the dream of American unity — but the Puritans and their followers knew better ...

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

Colonial New Englanders began to associate Christmas ... noted a "transition state about Christmas" in New England in 1856. "The old Puritan feeling prevents it from being a cheerful, hearty ...

Arriving in New England, the Puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in a town they named Boston. Life was hard, but in this stern and unforgiving place they were free to worship as they ...

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 ...