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 ...

Occultism and nation-building have been strangely intertwined, particularly in the gestation of America, writes Ed Simon ...

Those Colonies often had official churches that used government ... Ironically, Congregationalists, who had dominated ...

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 ...

Whether it’s children sporting pointy hats, Hocus Pocus playing on repeat, or homes adorned with bubbling cauldrons and ...

The Colonial Era living history museum in Williamsburg, Virginia, offers an enlightening portrait of life in ...

seeking freedom from religious persecution. The other passengers were seeking new trading and commercial ventures. They landed in present day Massachusetts, founding a colony that they called ...

In sum, I suggest that the West should first reward former colonies for faithfully embracing the earlier religion and cultural mores they introduced to them at the turn of the last century before ...

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 ...

Rhode Island has a lot of history. Roger Williams, who famously was banished from the Massachusetts colony for his advocacy of religious tolerance and the separation of church and state, purchased ...

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 ...