He arrived in America with the Puritans in 1624 and helped co-found the settlement of Merrymount, which is now Quincy, ...

The Bible contains some explicit genocidal narratives, and over time, some religious Zionists have wielded these stories to ...

For example, in colonial America, Puritan settlers justified massacres of Native Americans by comparing them with Amalek. During the Arab-Israeli war in 1948, Israeli army education officers ...

Others wondered if the standoffishness they’ve encountered had deeper roots, going back to the region’s self-reliant Puritan settlers. Some shared friendship-making success stories that ...

Others wondered if the standoffishness they've encountered had deeper roots, going back to the region's self-reliant Puritan settlers. Some shared friendship-making success stories that involved ...

Yet that’s not as outlandish as his assertion that “the modern immigrant comes to eat the fruits” of those trees.

The black-clad, steeple-hatted Puritan, walking warily to church with ... and balanced account of the relations between English settlers and the region’s indigenous peoples during the 17th ...

a reflection of the Puritans' unwavering commitment to their faith. Draconian laws, drawn from biblical texts, shaped every aspect of daily existence, impacting both the settlers and the ...

The roots of modern-day New York City— its dizzying cultural diversity and capitalist might—lie in its Dutch origins.