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The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered on MSN

In 1641, 1,400 soldiers and 600 seamen came for this tiny English colony

Founded by English Puritans in 1630, Providence Island was meant to become a Protestant stronghold in the Caribbean. Instead, the colony became entangled in religious conflict, privateering, internal ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sketch from 1877 illustrating the landing of the Pilgrims, by artist Albert Bobbett. The Print Collector/Hulton Archives via ...
Puritans, the early settlers of the American colonies, might have the reputation for being the strict and chaste, but the truth is that the sect of English Protestants could be relatively socially ...
The great Puritan divine John Winthrop, founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, probably wouldn't make it through Allegra di Bonaventura's book without suffering a cardiac episode. Set principally in ...
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 ...
(The Conversation) — Every November, numerous articles recount the arrival of 17th-century English Pilgrims and Puritans and their quest for religious freedom. Stories are told about the founding of ...
Puritans believed they must seek out and convert Native Americans so as to “ raise them to godliness.” Tens of thousands of Puritans therefore poured into Massachusetts Bay Colony in what became known ...