A few 430 years ago, Massachusetts Bay Colony’s first governor and a founder of Boston was born in Suffolk, England. At the age of 42, lawyer John Winthrop boarded the Arbella for America with a plan ...
THREE years ago we gave in these pages a hearty welcome to a volume, the subject of which, under a well-marked division of place and circumstance, is presented with equal interest and fidelity of ...
A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS. VOL. XIII.—JANUARY, 1864.—NO. LXXV. OUR magazine was introduced to the world bearing on the cover of its first number a vignette of the portraiture of the ...
John Winthrop’s “city upon a hill” language wasn’t meant to puff up his hearers with pride but to send a chill down their spines. Ronald Reagan understood the power of metaphor. From his stirring ...
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