Jack and George Barnett don’t remember exactly when they first met Harley Weir, but they do remember what they liked about her work. “I think she has a way of making the familiar strange, and the ...

Editor’s note: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Every November, numerous articles recount the arrival of 17th-century ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Going To Church,' N.C. Wyeth (1941). Archival photograph, Brandywine River Museum library, Edward J. S. Seal Collection. When ...

THANKSGIVING MAY be the one day a year when the Puritans, those early American settlers who came to the new world seeking "purity" in worship, actually get a break. We get a terrific feast, and ...

These New Puritans have announced their new album ‘Crooked Wing’ and shared its lead single ‘Industrial Love Song’, featuring Caroline Polachek. It will be the Southend band’s first studio record in ...

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 ...

During the reign of Elizabeth I, the English Parliament introduced a series of measures intended to reform the theology and rituals of the Church of England established during the reign of her father, ...

Americans can learn a lot about themselves and their society by revisiting—but not by reverting to—their republic’s distinctive Puritan origins, which anticipated its present dilemmas and strengths ...

BOSTON — “Fifty Shades of Grey,” Puritan edition? The famously strait-laced 17th-century sectarians who helped settle America weren’t nearly as priggish as you might think, a leading Puritan scholar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When winter cold settles in across the U.S., the alleged “War on Christmas” heats up. In recent years, department store greeters ...

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 ...

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