In 1692, the most infamous witch hunt in history took place in Salem, Massachusetts.

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.

The origins of the West End neighborhood date back to the arrival of the Puritans in the 15th century. A couple of years ...

The Trump administration’s war on elite universities has forced them to consider whether it’s ever worth dipping into the ...

Massachusetts is in the midst of prosecuting ... Americans like to pretend that we're way more enlightened than our Puritan ancestors, but here we are, hundreds of years later, putting people ...

It seems there is a special day for everything. Last Tuesday was National Beagle Day. Our dog thought every day was National ...

Exactly 250 years on from the first showdown between British troops and militiamen that sparked the American War of ...

Liberals are portraying President Donald Trump's threat to revoke Harvard's tax-exempt status as an abuse of power. But ...

Puritans were particularly contemptuous of ... when the Crown managed to exert greater control over its subjects in Massachusetts. In 1686, the royal governor of the colony, Sir Edmund Andros ...

the town that rose on a slender peninsula jutting into Massachusetts Bay was singular from the outset. Its leaders were Protestant reformers, denigrated as “Puritans” by their enemies.

The route of Paul Revere’s midnight ride from Boston to Lexington 250 years ago looks much different today. For starters, ...