Keywords Puritan, family life, New England, daily routine, chores, religion, education, community, gratitude, nature Email us at [email protected] if you have questions about the footage and are ...

Christian nationalism was a flop when the Puritans tried it. See this famous Augustus Saint-Gaudens sculpture for information.

the seventeenth-century. Few contemporary Americans understand ... and limited government. First, in Puritan New England, politics was predicated on unity and homogeneity, not division and difference.

A witchcraft trial in England, 17th century. A suspected witch is lowered into the water to find out whether she would survive. If she did, she would be regarded as a witch. Witchcraft was a ...

In the 1640s and 1650s, Puritans were in charge of Parliament. They introduced laws to enforce, what they believed to be, an appropriate Christian lifestyle: In the 16th century, most people ...

Robert Eggers’s film, depicting a Puritan family grappling with evil in 17th-century New England, reclaims a period in American history that was remapped into a more symbolic, contemporary space ...

After a long and bloody civil war that had pitted the religious militants known as the Puritans against the Stuart monarchy, the royals were once again in power in England, and Charles II and his ...