Nowhere is this more telling than in their respective religious beliefs and treatment of Native Americans. Pilgrims arose from the English Puritan movement that originated in the 1570s.

New England Puritans were hard-pressed by Native American warriors who knew how to fight in forests—and now had flintlock rifles.

Known as "separatists," these Puritans left their homeland and in ... building a thriving religious community that profoundly shaped American ideas of liberty of conscience, the nature of ...

A few weeks ago a story of mine about the Stockbridge Indians appeared, and now we turn to the Brothertown Indians, who had a ...

Nicolls got nowhere with them. For the Puritans' descendants, the American system of government that was forged in the 18th century was only ever a vehicle to get to the promised land. Few ...