But that image is a false one, scholars say. Some see Puritans planting the seeds of such core American values as industriousness, idealism and faith more than a century before the Declaration of ...

There was the petty withdrawal of federal security protection from three former Trump administration officials facing ...

Clint Bentley translates Denis Johnson’s novella into a meditative study of America’s Puritan work ethic, starring Joel ...

Raylene Hinz-Penner here, a Liberal, Kansas native, retired English professor now living in Newton, with a glimpse into Wordy ...

I’m Bob Seay and this is a Radio Readers BookByte from High Plains Public Radio. I’ve been reading Sarah Vowell’s book, The ...

Few tenets of the American mythos are more enduring than the American dream. But the aspiration to move upward toward a brighter tomorrow feels out of reach, a significant number of people in the ...

In 1623, former Mayflower passenger Edward Winslow rushed west from Plymouth to visit Ousamequin, the Pilgrims’ Pokanoket ...

Among the reckonings necessary in the wake of Trump’s reelection is jettisoning the notion that patriotism and democracy are synergistic.

This biblical notion of peoplehood — Puritans modeled themselves on the ancient Hebrews — bound America to moral righteousness. A new Jerusalem and unique among nations, American patriotism ...