Religion and Social Movements
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3.4KNew Haven’s Center Church Crypt, the Puritan City of the Dead
In the basement of an old Congregational church on New Haven Green lies a small city of the dead. One hundred thirty...
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7.5KSt. Martin-in-the-Fields, the London Model for the New England Meetinghouse
New Englanders visiting Trafalger Square in London often get a shock when they see the façade of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. The famous parish...
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2.9KThe Mashpee Nine and the Fight Over Cape Cod Land
On the moonless night of July 29, 1976, a group of young Mashpee Wampanoag men sat around a campfire, talking quietly. Some...
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5.6KGiving the Devil Her Due: The Neglected History of Tituba, Salem’s First Witch
Posterity has treated few characters in the Salem witch trial drama as poorly as Tituba, a woman enslaved in the household of...
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4.6KJohn Billington Gets Lost: A Window to Plymouth Colony’s Early History
In the summer of 1621, the Plymouth colonists finally had reason for optimism — until 16-year-old John Billington wandered off and got...
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