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When someone says “Christmas,” what are the first things that pop into your mind? They might include Christmas trees, Christmas carols, Santa Claus, or perhaps beautiful lights and giving gifts. For ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I. Religious motives in American colonization. Hakluyt's discourse on western planting. The crusade against Catholicism. Contributions of the German reformation. English religious minorities.