At the end of the LGBTQ community’s celebration of Pride Month, it might be worthwhile to consider some of the downsides of pride and its opposite — shame, or humiliation.

The very concept of shame seems foreign to us today, like the stockades of the American Puritan era which were designed to humiliate those who violated what were then cultural norms and serve as a ...

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In Massachusetts, where some sources date the ban all the way back to the Puritan era, a campaign to repeal it made progress before stalling in the state Legislature in 2014.

In Massachusetts, where some sources date the ban all the way back to the Puritan era, a campaign to repeal it made progress before stalling in the state Legislature in 2014.

The black-clad, steeple-hatted Puritan, walking warily to church with Bible in hand and musket on shoulder, is an enduring image of New England’s formative colonial era. In “The Wars of the ...

(The Center Square)—Maine business groups are supporting a Republican proposal to lift one of the remaining vestiges of the ...