We often take our access to good plumbing and a vast selection of cleaning products for granted, not knowing that they were ...

Massachusetts ratified the U.S. Constitution on February 6, 1788, according to the Census Bureau. Originally, Maine was ...

The film depicts the daily life of a Puritan family in early colonial New England, focusing on their morning routines, household chores, and interactions with nature and neighbors. The father ...

It highlights the influence of religion on education, particularly the Puritan belief in teaching children to read the Bible to fend off evil. The establishment of the first education laws ...

Puritans, the religious fanatics of the ... (Historian Daniel Crown has called him “the forgotten founding father of colonial New England.”) Not until 1927 was a memorial building to Pynchon ...

England's colonial arguments ... It was for these reasons that John Smith christened the land "New England." What characterizes "Puritanism," the term used to describe the faith embraced by ...

The record price for a Colonial New England coin is $646,250 ... In the first decades after Puritans founded Boston in 1630, such worn and debased coins — unacceptable to European traders ...

"America's Apple" and "Apples of New England." There are several accounts, he said, of Blaxton "riding a bull through the streets, throwing flowers and apples to his friends." The staid Puritan ...

Stoddard had handled church membership in the New England Congregationalist tradition ... Edwards was no sheltered, isolated colonial Puritan, interested only in the dogma of the old theological ...

New England in the Republic ... minded section of the colonies to British control in government and commerce, and the increasing protest of the augmenting non-Puritan and non-privileged classes ...

Why did you decide to set your first fiction novel in Puritan New England? Well ... becoming interested in how did some of these early colonial practices and thoughts inform the world that ...