BOSTON — Massachusetts’ attorney general is launching an investigation into several supermarkets that opened on Thanksgiving in defiance of the state’s Puritan-era blue laws. The laws were passed in ...

Set under gray Puritan skies in a deathly autumn, “The Witch” is a slow-burning 1600s horror thriller so bone-dry it would take only a match for the whole movie to go up in flames. “A New England ...

Jane Day was honeymooning in the Bahamas in 1969 when she heard the legend of the islands’ first British settlers, a band of Puritans who were shipwrecked off Eleuthera and set up a commune in a cave.

According to The Harvard Crimson, Atwood studied Puritanism in the 1960s. During her studies, she learned the “roots of totalitarianism in America” came from the Puritan theocracy of the 1600s. In ...

User-Created Clip August 20, 2018 2017-10-07T15:03:22-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/5dc/20171007151602003_hd.jpgEve LaPlante talked about her book, American ...

Boston Puritans canceled Christmas for 22 years Puritans actually sent out town criers to yell%2C %22No Christmas%21 No Christmas%21%22 In 1681%2C governor Sir Edmund ...