Pilgrims arose from the English Puritan movement that originated in the 1570s. Puritans wanted the English Protestant ...
Lakota historian Nick Estes talks about the violent origins of Thanksgiving and his book Our History Is the Future. “This ...
Every November, articles recount the arrival of 17th century English Pilgrims and Puritans and their quest for religious ...
Massachusetts threepence, one of the first coins minted in colonial America, has shattered auction records, sold by Stack’s ...
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 ...
Every November, numerous articles recount the arrival of 17th-century English Pilgrims and Puritans and their quest for religious freedom. Stories are told about the founding of Massachusetts Bay ...
The Boston Mint was officially created on May 27, 1652 to help ensure that businesses in the already commercially successful Massachusetts Bay Colony had an adequate supply of money. At the time ...
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 ...
No one knows quite what to do with Thanksgiving since most of what we think of as “tradition” is bogus, former Historic ...
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 ...
Another colony called the Massachusetts Bay Colony, a group of English Puritans, later arrived and eventually absorbed Plymouth to form one royal colony.