Today people will undoubtedly celebrate Thanksgiving in some fashion across America. But for President John Adams, Thanksgiving was very much an optional...
A portrait of Roger Williams is easy to sketch in words: Baptist minister banished from Massachusetts, founding father of Rhode Island and...
Henry Vaughan didn’t leave much in the way of paper records, but he did change the face of Puritan New England with...
The Puritan leaders of Massachusetts viewed Obadiah Holmes as a loathsome Baptist, and they ordered him whipped 30 times in public. They...
If the English colonists knew how much pumpkin they’d eat when they got to New England, they might have had second thoughts...
Money in the 1600s was a volatile topic in the colonies. In a financial crisis, a currency shortage would freeze up the...