puritans

Recounts Anne Hutchinson's struggle with the Puritan Church over its rigid theocratic control of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, her trial for heresy and sedition, and banishment from the colony.

Recounts the story of the Puritan woman who was banished from her colony for being outspoken against the religious leaders there.

Traces the early colonization of New England by the Pilgrims in 1620, their struggles, association with the natives, and the Puritan legacy.

Describes the founding and history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and discusses related topics including Puritan clothing, the Wampanoags, Increase Mather, scurvy, and Paul Revere's ride.

Uses primary sources to debate the spread of Puritanism in the United States and how historians view the Puritans.

Traces the history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony back to the reformation, and discusses the background, development, and impact of the 1629 Charter.

In seventeenth-century New England, Hester Prynne is condemned by Puritan law to wear a scarlet "A" as the symbol of the sin she had committed.

Discusses the Civil War fought between the royalist forces of King Charles and Cromwell's Puritans in seventeenthcentury England.

Examines the connections between colonial ideology and contemporary American writing and films concerning the Vietnam experience.