'Going To Church,' N.C. Wyeth (1941). Archival photograph, Brandywine River Museum library, Edward J. S. Seal Collection. When winter cold settles in across the U.S., the alleged “War on Christmas” ...

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 ...

A sketch from 1877 illustrating the landing of the Pilgrims, by artist Albert Bobbett. The Print Collector/Hulton Archives via Getty Images Every November, numerous articles recount the arrival of ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Bellini’s “I Puritani,” directed by Charles Edwards, is “a retro move,” said Peter ...

The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to “purify” the Church of England of remnants of the Roman Catholic “popery” that the Puritans claimed had been retained ...

Have you ever noticed that some things that we assume to be true or even know to be true turn out not to be true after all? Quite often this is the case with historical facts. Take the Pilgrims and ...

A recent introduction to Puritan history rehabilitates their reputation and legacy. While presenting the major events and figures in Puritan history, Bremer attempts a recovery of the Puritan image in ...

Another Christmas, another string of outrages about the supposed “War on Christmas.” In November there was the social media furor about Starbucks’ red cups, as Ed Simon relates here in RD. Then this ...

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 ...

Critics of the rigid and imperious ideological extremism of the modern Left now often reach for the vocabulary of religious fanaticism to explain what has happened to progressives. Sometimes that ...

When winter cold settles in across the U.S., the alleged “War on Christmas” heats up. In recent years, department store greeters and Starbucks cups have sparked furor by wishing customers “happy ...