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.

Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; A NOTE ON THE TEXT; INTRODUCTION; Part I RISE AND ...

I. Uprooting -- 1. Emergence of a Puritan faction -- A. Puritans and parliament / John Field and Thomas Wilcox -- B. Puritans and the king / Anonymous -- 2. Emergence of Puritan theology / William ...

A tale where fear met power: the Salem Witch Trials. They weren’t merely about witchcraft, but control. Set in 17th-century ...

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 ...

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 ...

Critics of the rigid and imperious ideological extremism of the modern Left now often reach for the vocabulary of religious fanaticism to explain what has happened to progressives. Sometimes that ...

MR. MATTHEW ARNOLD has recently published an interesting and suggestive plea for “equality.” By equality Mr. Arnold means the adoption of some such law as holds in France, where a testator is forced ...

Historian Peter Mancall says New English Canaan is “not very long” and “not very well written,” but holds immense value in what it says about the nation’s founding. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...