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

Jane Kamensky is the president and CEO of Monticello and the author of “A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton ...

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 ...

The roots of modern-day New York City— its dizzying cultural diversity and capitalist might—lie in its Dutch origins.

When Christianity became state-sponsored under leaders such as Constantine and Theodosius, governments systematically ...

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 ...

A few weeks ago a story of mine about the Stockbridge Indians appeared, and now we turn to the Brothertown Indians, who had a ...

A church connected to Lucy and Lois, documented as the final two enslaved people sold in New Haven in 1825, recently held a ...

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

Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...