The school was built on the site of a Salem-era gallows hill and the ghostly legacies of Puritan-era persecution haunt the campus in an increasingly supernatural fashion.

In Puritan poems, the forest gibbered and howled. The notion that danger lurked in the woods lingered long after the Puritan era. In 1818, ...

How a detail-obsessed first-time filmmaker recreated the Puritan era for 'The Witch' — and came up with the year's best horror movie.

The famously strait-laced 17th-century sectarians who helped settle America weren't nearly as priggish as you might think, a leading Puritan scholar says.

Will you sign the book? A terrifying tale of Puritan-era witchcraft (maybe) explores the roots of American madness. By Andrew O'Hehir Executive Editor. Published February 18, 2016 11:58PM (EST) ...

BOSTON — Massachusetts’ attorney general is launching an investigation into several supermarkets that opened on Thanksgiving in defiance of the state’s Puritan-era blue laws. The laws were ...

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Puritan-era America was rife with public humiliation in the form of pillories and ducking stools, but even in those cases, the accused went through a formal judicial process.

The Witch Review: A Wonderfully Crafted Puritan-Era Horror. Published Thu, 18 Feb 2016 08:15:22 -0600 by Bill Watters | Last updated Sat, 25 Nov 2017 19:08:36 -0600 | Comments.

It is time for Americans to get out of each other’s bedrooms. CIA director David Petraeus should be the last high-value loss of a dedicated and skilled professional due to a sexual indiscretion.

Puritan-era New England is such a foreign time and sensibility to most of us that “The Witch” could very well be taking place on another planet, and it’s an exceptional movie for taking full ...