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Is it necessary to have a clear grasp of the Puritans in order to understand contemporary American culture? Didn’t modern America really commence some time after Puritanism had, like Oliver Wendell ...

The debate about the meaning of early American history has become a debate about the meaning of America itself. Over the past few months, for instance, the New York Times’s “1619” project has ...

In both England and America, their political experiments collapsed. But they left behind a spiritual legacy that still inspires. A new book by Michael Winship explores how the Puritans—those ...

The solemn hour approaches. It will soon be just three hundred years since the Pilgrims let go their anchor off the coast of Cape Cod. A flood of oratory will surely descend upon us. The New England ...

In November there was the social media furor about Starbucks’ red cups, as Ed Simon relates here in RD. Then this month, 36 Republican U.S. House members introduced a resolution “that the symbols and ...

English Civil War tensions in the mother country played out in a furious skirmish between Colonial Puritans and Catholics in present-day Annapolis, a rumble known as the Battle of the Severn. On or ...

'The Arrival of the Pilgrim Fathers,' circa 1864 (oil on canvas) by Antonio Gisbert (1835-1901); 80.5 x 58 cm. BRIDGEMAN IMAGES Agnès Delahaye, a professor of American civilization at Lumière ...