'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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In November there was the social media furor about Starbucks’ red cups, as Ed Simon relates here in RD. Then this month, 36 Republican U.S. House members introduced a resolution “that the symbols and ...

Among the many frivolous things for which we are forced to allot space in our brains is the campaign afoot to change the notorious last line of the fourth verse of “Fair Harvard”: “Till the stock of ...

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 ...