One of the great blessings of liberty we enjoy in our country is freedom of religion. The Founding Fathers of our nation ...

It’s incorrect to say that simply because people belonged to the same church, they agreed with one another, writes.

Rhode Island was founded by the refugee Roger Williams, when he was run out of Puritan New England and his colony instituted freedom of religion from the beginning.

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The geographies of upward mobility show U.S. regions that emphasize investments in the common good over economic ...

Early settlers to the Massachusetts Bay Colony were not interested in religious freedom. They created a theocracy—a society led and bound by the rules of one religious sect.

When a Quaker woman entered Boston for the third or fourth time in protest, the Massachusetts Bay Puritan governor had her hanged in 1660. Mary Dyer went singing to her death.

A Q&A with author Russell Shorto on the early colonial history of New Amsterdam in the lead-up to a confrontation with the English.

When a Quaker woman entered Boston for the third or fourth time in protest, the Massachusetts Bay Puritan governor had her hanged in 1660. Mary Dyer went singing to her death.

Each farm had an orchard with apple trees and pear trees. Ben recalled, “many kinds of berries growing on the stony pastures and along the stone fences … blueberries and blackberries as big as plums ...