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.

People who criticise mispronunciations are often guilty of snobbery towards regional dialects, a top linguist has claimed. In ...

On Puritans A critique of the Puritans, on the 300th anniversary of the Mayflower's arrival at Plymouth Harbor.

But debates about celebrating Christmas go back to the 17th century. The Puritans, it turns out, were not too keen on the holiday.They first discouraged Yuletide festivities and later outright ...

Today’s Puritans have shown in innumerable ways that they have seen through the myth and have moved on: from refusing to consider Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominees to rejecting the results ...

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 ...

Every November, 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 Colony and ...

The American Puritans of the 1630s and beyond were more ardent, and nervous about salvation, than the Pilgrims of the 1620s. Puritans tightly regulated both church and society and demanded proof ...