Those guys who landed at Plymouth Rock were a doomsday cult, says Jane Borden — and we've emulated them ever since ...

Playing at Coachella last month, Charli XCX brought the curtain down on her lengthy “Brat summer” by screening the names of ...

With a heated inground pool and four spacious bedrooms, this Mattapoisett home sold for almost $1M. Find out what other area ...

Sixth graders at the Tisbury School eagerly entered Sean DeBettencourt’s social studies classroom for the second session of ...

In many ways, the United States was founded by what current Americans might call a cult. The Puritans were a radical, high-control group with doomsday beliefs, a fact we rarely acknowledge.

That's the line spoken by King George in the record-breaking musical Hamilton after Adams becomes the second US president in 1797, beating his eventual successor Thomas Jefferson. His place in ...

The unassuming village can trace back to five US presidents He later emigrated to the US, along with other puritan pilgrims, perhaps as a result of the catholic practices being reintroduced by ...

Despite their haloed image, the Pilgrims were a decidedly motley crew. Staunch Protestant Puritans, they had been forced into exile in the Netherlands around 1607 for resisting King James’s ...

Les Mythes Fondateurs de l'Amérique ("Adventurers, Pilgrims, Puritans. America's Founding Myths") to explore the legends passed down as history about the origins of the United States. In an ...

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 ...