Farmingdale School District’s Howitt Middle School social studies and English students recently learned about Puritan culture by participating in a re-enactment of the Puritan court. Students ...

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.

A few weeks ago, I was standing outside an 11th-century church built against a honey-coloured vertical rock wall in the south of France. It was in a village perché of about 30 houseswhere, until about ...

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 ...

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 ...