From Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans to contemporary liberals and "woke" ideologues, the West has a long tradition of trying to cancel the season It's the festive season, and you go on holiday. Your ...

Washington Gave Bigotry No Sanction. We Should Do the Same Mr. Conservative and the Minister The Federalist’s John Daniel Davidson recently advanced a provocative theory, one summarized in the ...

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For more than 150 years, the Puritans have received a shameful reputation. The colonizers of New England, credited with the first Thanksgiving, are most often portrayed as drab, glum and ...

From its name to its roots, Cambridge’s Puritan & Company is all New England, all the time. The restaurant is an ode to everything local — the space got its name from the Puritan Cake Company, which ...

In many ways, the United States was founded by what current Americans might call a cult. The Puritans were a radical, high-control group with doomsday beliefs, a fact we rarely acknowledge. The ...

The Puritans were a group behind the religious ideology known as “Puritanism”, a type of early modern Reformed Protestantism that was born within the Church of England. They started as a movement for ...

A 1925 recreation of Brownscombe's earlier 1914 painting of the First Thanksgiving at Plymouth. (Public domain via Wikimedia Commons) Every November, numerous articles recount the arrival of ...

Every November, numerous articles recount the arrival of 17th-century English Pilgrims and Puritans and their quest for religious freedom. Stories are told about the founding of Massachusetts Bay ...