The Puritans' supposed white-hot hatred of Indians is often invoked around Thanksgiving, as Americans reflect on the circumstances of our nation's founding.

Many unselfish Americans took a potent oath for our democratic principles and Judeo-Christian values! You stand above the majority of citizens. You were part of the 1% that was protecting the other 99 ...

So, Puritans and Pilgrims came out of the same religious culture of 1570s England. They diverged in the early 1600s, but wound up 70 years later being one and the same in the New World.

“Puritans” are no more at Harvard University. The Ivy League purged the word from its alma mater, “Fair Harvard,” taking out the reference to the English Protestants who founded the nation ...

For more than 150 years, the Puritans have gotten a bum rap. The colonizers of New England, credited with the first Thanksgiving, are most often portrayed as drab, glum and pleasure-hating. You&#82… ...

The famously strait-laced 17th-century sectarians who helped settle America weren’t nearly as priggish as you might think, a leading Puritan scholar says.

What did the Puritans ever do for us? They banned Christmas, closed the theatres, and made "tippling" illegal. So, if I ask you to picture a Puritan, the image, inevitably, is not appealing.

In his new book ‘The Rise of the New Puritans,’ Noah Rothman has finally made sense of this facet of the character of the woke Left.

Puritans had strong moralistic doubts about participation in capital markets, and were prone to scold and eventually excommunicate merchants who used state of the art financial instruments and ...

“The climate fostered by the New Puritans is both humorless and totalitarian,” Rothman writes. He shows that its humorlessness in particular is more important than it might first appear, ...

Puritans and Native Americans in the 1630s and beyond Dominated by hundreds of Puritan clergy, Massachusetts Bay Colony was all about emigration, expansion and evangelization during this period.

Puritans believed they must seek out and convert Native Americans so as to “raise them to godliness.” Tens of thousands of Puritans therefore poured into Massachusetts Bay Colony in what became known ...