All posts tagged "puritans"
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2.6KConnecticutNew 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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4.9KCrime and ScandalGiving 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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5.4KArts and LeisureLady Blanche Forsakes Her English Manor for True Love in Bartlett, NH
One rainy day in the autumn of 1875, a writer named A.A. Smith met Lady Blanche Murphy, the daughter of an earl,...
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5.9KArts and LeisureWhen the Puritans Banned Mincemeat Pie
On May 11, 1659, the Massachusetts Puritans banned Christmas and ordered anyone caught celebrating to pay a fine of five shillings. That...
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5.9KArts and LeisureThe Four Women Who Cooked the First Thanksgiving
The four women who cooked that first Thanksgiving probably didn’t feel all that thankful when their husbands invited 90 guests, all Wampanoag...
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5.7KArts and LeisureSamuel Morse Paints 38 Masterpieces (And Then Invents the Telegraph)
Samuel Morse as a young man wanted nothing more than to be an artist, an aspiration upon which his Puritan parents frowned....
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