This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccurate headline." As Rhode Island's capital, Providence is ...

Indeed, the two colonies originally most opposed to religious liberty for anyone who did not share their views, Connecticut and Massachusetts, eventually became bastions of it. By focusing on law, ...

tolerated more diversity and religious freedom, so that later immigrants to the New World were drawn to those more liberal colonies instead of Massachusetts. By 1775, although all the American ...

To teach students about religion is not the same as teaching or advocating religion. Religion has played an important role in ...

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Arriving in New England, the Puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in a town they named ... Over time this religious fervor diminished. Scholars disagree about when and why this ...

50 States #1 in Pre-K-12 Separatists fleeing religious persecution in England arrived aboard the Mayflower at Plymouth Harbor in 1620. Another colony called the Massachusetts Bay Colony ...

a George Mason University religious studies professor, provided a history of the Plymouth Colony, establish… At Plimoth Patuxet in Plymouth, Massachusetts, we explored the recreated 17th-century ...

The uneasy conscience of Christian nationalism pretends that our problem is the opposite of what Jesus told us: that by ...

50 States #1 in Public Health Separatists fleeing religious persecution in England arrived aboard the Mayflower at Plymouth Harbor in 1620. Another colony called the Massachusetts Bay Colony ...

They were English religious dissenters, leaving to establish a colony in America where they ... the idea that the Puritan community in Massachusetts would be a special place blessed by God ...