In the American colonies, governing structures varied widely. Some, like Massachusetts Bay Colony, embraced self-government through town meetings, while others were directly ruled by the British ...
Christmas celebrates the birth of Christ, which one might think would make it a hands-down joyous occasion. Nope. Christmas ...
Stories are told about the founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony and the celebration of the first Thanksgiving feast. In the popular mind, the two groups are synonymous. In the story of the ...
Pilgrims arose from the English Puritan movement that originated in the 1570s. Puritans wanted the English Protestant ...
The 1652 Massachusetts threepence predates the American Revolution by over a century.
Massachusetts threepence, one of the first coins minted in colonial America, has shattered auction records, sold by Stack’s ...
Every November, articles recount the arrival of 17th century English Pilgrims and Puritans and their quest for religious ...
Lakota historian Nick Estes talks about the violent origins of Thanksgiving and his book Our History Is the Future. “This ...
In 1652, New England settlers opened their own mint against the rules established by the British royalty that governed them.
The origins of Harvard Divinity School and of the study of theology at Harvard can be traced back to the very beginning of Harvard College, when an initial fund of 400 pounds from the General Court of ...
No one knows quite what to do with Thanksgiving since most of what we think of as “tradition” is bogus, former Historic ...