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

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

When the Massachusetts Bay Colony was first founded in 1630, the Puritans struggled from a scarcity of necessary survival goods which lead them to trade. Quite a bit of trade. By the early 1700s ...

In the 1620s, the first English settlers in Massachusetts had been dissenters from the Church of England: Puritans. More than 150 years later, on the eve of revolution, the colony retained its ...

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

In the late 1600s, shortly after the end of the King Wiliams War, Puritans in Massachusetts felt the influx of immigrants, among other reasons, was responsible for altering physical realities and ...

Massachusetts. The all-black house located at 33 Tarragon Drive is a near perfect replica of the Salem home of Puritan Jonathan Corwin, a central figure in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.

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

Over time, the Pilgrims who clung to Plymouth's rocky shores were absorbed into the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Like the Pilgrims, the Puritans believed that the Church of England ...

Puritans were religious fanatics — the Christian nationalists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Most know they came by the boatload from England in the early 1600s, searching for their religious ...