When someone says “Christmas,” what are the first things that pop into your mind? They might include Christmas trees, Christmas carols, Santa Claus, or perhaps beautiful lights and giving gifts. For ...

The Grinch would have come up empty- handed in Colonial Connecticut. There would have been no presents under the tree, let alone a tree to steal. Christmas was viewed by the Puritans of New England as ...

The solemn hour approaches. It will soon be just three hundred years since the Pilgrims let go their anchor off the coast of Cape Cod. A flood of oratory will surely descend upon us. The New England ...

and the author of 15 previous books, among them the recent best-seller "Benjamin Franklin" -- is one of our pre-eminent authorities on the American Revolution and the early and late colonial periods.

The first winter took many of the English at Plymouth. By fall 1621, only 53 remained of the 132 who had arrived on the Mayflower. But those who had survived brought in a harvest. And so, in keeping ...

A new look at Thomas Morton, his controversial colonial philosophy, and his lengthy feud with the Puritans. Adding new depth to our understanding of early New England society, this riveting account of ...

Scattered throughout New England are thousands of Puritan graveyards which contain the remains of folks who lived here hundreds of years ago during the Colonial era. These colonial burial grounds with ...

The great Puritan divine John Winthrop, founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, probably wouldn't make it through Allegra di Bonaventura's book without suffering a cardiac episode. Set principally in ...

The famously strait-laced 17th-century sectarians who helped settle America weren't nearly as priggish as you might think. A leading scholar claims that the Puritans were in fact sexy, and saw sex and ...

Inspired by his Francis Parkman Award-winning and National Book Award Finalist history, "The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story From Early America," Tyringham author John Demos has authored a ...