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

Nostalgia for a ‘Christian America’ overlooks the realities of religion in the founding era — which included taxes, jail time, exile and even public hangings for anyone who defied state-run churches.

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

Sara Georgini is series editor for The Papers of John Adams, part of the Adams Papers editorial project at the Massachusetts Historical Society. She is the author of Household Gods: The Religious ...

Such decadence never impressed religious purists ... exert greater control over its subjects in Massachusetts. In 1686, the royal governor of the colony, Sir Edmund Andros, sponsored a Christmas ...

Within a year of their wedding, amid an increasingly hostile climate for religious nonconformists, the Williamses left England for the new Massachusetts Bay Colony. Carrington-Farmer theorizes ...

Among these waves of Puritan colonists perhaps the most important migration occurred in 1630, when John Winthrop led the so-called Winthrop Fleet, with 700 colonists travelling on eleven ships. This ...

We have to start with one of the most infamous colonial witch hunts in the world - the Salem Witch Trials. Salem is a small town in Massachusetts, and in the late 1600s, became an epicenter of ...

(John Adams, Address to the Massachusetts Militia ... for America to embrace the failed government-religious partnerships of ...

The inaugural Edward Winslow Day on Thursday, November 28 will celebrate the life and times of the Droitwich born man who ...

Daron teaches at the Massachusetts Institute ... and its many languages and religions. The institutions bequeathed to Africa, South America and other former colonies, have live wires in the ...

Discover the hidden gems of Rhode Island's national parks. Explore the beauty of nature and the rich history of the 'Ocean ...