Americanism is profoundly Christian in its inspiration and worldview. It is profoundly Biblical. “We are the children of Abraham,” a seventeenth-century American Puritan reminded his fellow citizens.

Trends in the study of the Puritans have long functioned as a mirror reflecting broader cultural trends. For George Bancroft in the decades before the Civil War it was the Puritans as heralds of ...

BOTH the contemporary and the historical Puritan are still involved in clouds of libel, of which the origins lie in the copious fountains of indiscriminating abuse poured out upon the Puritans of the ...

Many things influence human behavior, and I don’t claim to understand all of them. I have had the most experience with the early New England Puritans' influence on how Americans act and react to the ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Speaker 1: From the opinion pages of The Wall Street Journal, this is Free ...

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 ...

In both England and America, their political experiments collapsed. But they left behind a spiritual legacy that still inspires. A new book by Michael Winship explores how the Puritans—those ...