Religion and Social Movements
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12.6KDid Thanksgiving Cost John Adams His Presidency? He Thought It Did
Today there is no doubt that across America Thanksgiving will be celebrated. But when John Adams was president, that was very much...
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4.9K1The Mysterious Rev. Josiah Baxter Murdered in Boston in 1673
In 1673 word reached England that the Rev. Josiah Baxter had been ruthlessly murdered in Boston. Baxter was an Anglican minister who...
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9.4KIn 1674 the Connecticut Rogerenes Test the Limits of Religious Freedom
The Rogerenes were an unusual group of religious dissenters formed in New London, Conn. in the late 1600s. They were named for...
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6.7K2Barkhamsted Lighthouse – Bringing Light to the Connecticut Hills
Why did anyone bother to build Barkhamsted Lighthouse in the hills of Western Connecticut? According to legend it was a love denied...
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3.8K1‘Sour Ale in Summer’ – The Puritan Beliefs of Charles Chauncy
In the early 1600s, the Anglican Church was under criticism from all manner of dissenters offering a wide variety of opinions on...
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3.8K1Jean-Louis Cheverus, the Catholic Priest Even the Puritans Liked
Boston, today that most Catholic of American cities, had no Catholic church within 300 miles when Father Jean-Louis Lefebvre Cheverus arrived in...
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5.6K1The Destroying Angel, Gold Diggers and the Book of Mormon
Does the Book of Mormon, the sacred text of the Mormon Church, owe its existence to Nathaniel Woods, leader of an unusual...
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20.1K7Louisa May Alcott, 10: Child Laborer at the Fruitlands Commune
When she was 10 years old, Louisa May Alcott in 1843 was taken to live at a commune called Fruitlands by her...
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8.9K3Six (And More) Mothers Who Left a Mark on History
Mothers have always had to balance competing demands, and some of those who did it best made history. Mindful that Mother's Day...
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13.7K2Margaret Fuller Dies in a Shipwreck While People Watch
Margaret Fuller, who spent her life protesting injustice, died at the age of 40 in a shipwreck off New York Harbor while...
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