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

As a comparatively obscure scholar in the mid-1970s, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich dropped a line in an academic essay on the Puritan era that said, "Well-behaved women seldom make history." It was an ...

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.

In every era, our hunt turned up largely feminine names. The primary exceptions were the androgynous Justice, Wisdom and Merit, and the male-leaning Valor, Truth, Courage and Reason.

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 Old Burying Ground was established by the Puritans sometime around 1635, ... The tombstones are remnants of Puritan-era craftsmanship that the Fannins take pride in preserving.

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 ...

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 tombstones are remnants of Puritan-era craftsmanship that the Fannins take pride in preserving. Many of them are painstakingly carved with images of the “death’s head” — a foreboding ...

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.