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Trends in the study of the Puritans have long functioned as a mirror reflecting broader cultural trends. For George Bancroft in the decades before the Civil War it was the Puritans as heralds of ...

BOTH the contemporary and the historical Puritan are still involved in clouds of libel, of which the origins lie in the copious fountains of indiscriminating abuse poured out upon the Puritans of the ...

Americanism is profoundly Christian in its inspiration and worldview. It is profoundly Biblical. “We are the children of Abraham,” a seventeenth-century American Puritan reminded his fellow citizens.

Many things influence human behavior, and I don’t claim to understand all of them. I have had the most experience with the early New England Puritans' influence on how Americans act and react to the ...

Believing he was on a mission from God, Oliver Cromwell became both military genius and lawgiver. Oliver Cromwell died in 1658 after an attack of “malaria” followed by a bout with a kidney infection.

(The Conversation) — Every November, numerous articles recount the arrival of 17th-century English Pilgrims and Puritans and their quest for religious freedom. Stories are told about the founding of ...