It helps a little—just a teeny-weeny bit?—to reflect there’s nothing new under the sun. As with America’s latest puritan episode: tight lips, smoldering eyes, icy rage against human hindrances to ...

Puritan premises and practices gestated and channeled some of the liberal-capitalist premises, practices, and paradoxes that are now embraced and reviled the world over. They shaped much of the ...

Editor’s note: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Every November, numerous articles recount the arrival of 17th-century ...

I. Uprooting -- 1. Emergence of a Puritan faction -- A. Puritans and parliament / John Field and Thomas Wilcox -- B. Puritans and the king / Anonymous -- 2. Emergence of Puritan theology / William ...

The Mind of the Master Class is a masterpiece. In The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders’ Worldview, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene Genovese embark upon a task ...

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 ...