Puritans

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Roger Williams liked Indians and almost everyone else, and he founded a colony that gave our freedom a broader horizon</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="body">How far back in American history can we find the old shell game in operation? Alas, pretty far. </span></p>

<p>Many a book, a magazine, a play, a movie, has been banned in Boston. But Christmas?</p>

<p><span class="deck">Up until the last century in some parts of the country, a murderer’s guilt could legally be determined by what happened when he or she touched the victim’s corpse.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Had Thomas Morton raised his maypole anywhere but next door to the Pilgrims, history and legend probably would have no record of him, his town, or his “lascivious” revels.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A rare survivor of New England’s earliest days testifies to the strength that forged a nation.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">It was a bankrupt ruin by the 1660s, but the Saugus Ironworks foretold America’s industrial might.</span></p>

<p>Mary Rowlandson, captured by Indians in 1676 and marched into the “vast and howling Wilderness,” survived to write the first and perhaps most powerful example of the captivity narrative.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> Thomas Morton liked the lush country, the Indians liked Thomas—and the stern Puritans cared little for either</span> </p>