He arrived in America with the Puritans in 1624 and helped co-found the settlement of Merrymount, which is now Quincy, ...

Raised in New England, Leland traveled to Virginia in ... Winthrop was chosen to serve as governor of the fledgling Puritan colony. Winthrop and his fellow Puritans sailed westward to establish ...

In two books about the origins of the United States and the place of women in the American narrative, Adane sheds light on ...

Anniversaries are a time to look back, to celebrate milestones and achievements; it is also a time to remember the misfortunes and hardships that some of the members of our society experienced leading ...

For New England Puritan ministers such as Jonathan Mayhew, the regicides were not ‘king-killers’ but men who had shown legitimate resistance towards a tyrant. As the dispute between Britain and its ...

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 ...

An interview with Greg Barnhisel, author of Code Name Puritan. The book is a fascinating biography of Norman Holmes Pearson, ...

In London, restaurants serving classic English cuisine are having a resurgence. (Yes, that means a lot of beige.) ...

The New England Patriots signed wide receiver Stefon Diggs knowing full well that he was in the process of recovering from a torn ACL he suffered back in October, and they know there is a chance ...

Find Your Next Book Romance Novels N.Y.C. Literary Guide Nonfiction Spring Preview Fiction Spring Preview Advertisement Supported by Fiction Annika Norlin’s novel, “The Colony,” follows a ...

A fast spreading form of bird flu is devastating colonies where almost half of the world’s wandering albatrosses breed on a remote island group halfway between South Africa and Antarctica. High ...

Race-based slavery soon became central to the economy of the British colonies in North America. A group attempting to escape religious persecution in England sailed for the New World and landed at ...