This system was to go on in the New England colonies well into the 1700s, and the same system of church schools was predominant. However, they placed more of a focus on philosophy than simple bible ...
The Bray School building had been moved and enlarged. When Meyers began asking questions about it, the building was covered in 20th-century siding, and the original chimneys were hidden under a new ...
As one of the 13 original colonies, Connecticut is home to many old institutions ... At the time of its founding, Yale was just the second school to be founded in New England - after Harvard ...
In a close election, a lot of media attention focuses on how different demographic groups might sway the results. Evangelical ...
NEWBURYPORT — The Newburyport Public Library is hosting the following virtual event “Printing in Colonial New England, on Monday at 7 p.m. Join Andy Volpe with an in-depth look at the printing methods ...
Made up of six states, this region in the north east of the US is best known for its history and culture, but its coastal roads and mountain hiking trails are just as big a hit.
European settlers in other American colonies continued ... states soon followed suit. But New England remained defiantly Scrooge-like; as late as 1850, schools and markets remained open on ...
What is this new ... England, their mother country, is not one of coercion; it is one of choice; it is one of reverence and affection. That the British Government insures such liberty in its ...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP ... A growing list of British institutions, including the Church of England, have begun to own up to their historic involvement in slavery. The British government ...
The academic defends the legacy of the Spanish empire on both sides of the Atlantic and is very critical of the false myths ...
Legendary novelist John Dos Passos tells the story of economist Thorstein Veblen, the outspoken Progressive Era critic of capitalism who coined the phrase “conspicuous consumption.” ...
After first appearing in birds in Argentina in February of 2023, a "highly pathogenic" strain of H5N1 was spotted in infected ...