A History of the American People
There are two points which need to be added. First, as the historian A. L. Rowse has pointed out, the failure of the Roanoke col ...
paid a secret visit. It was through Britain that the Roman Empire had embraced the faith: for the Emperor Constantine had been B ...
intractable. This major Ulster planting took root because it was based on agriculture and centered round hard-working, experienc ...
All these threads began to come together in the early years of the 17th century. James I was keen on colonization, provided it c ...
they built a fort, a church, and huts with roofs of thatch. None of the original settlement survives but an elaborate reconstruc ...
enforcing them. Unlike Smith's ordinances, they were civil not martial law, but they had a distinctly Puritan tone. Sabbath obse ...
representative institutions, leading to democratic freedoms, and the use of slave-labor, the `peculiar institution' of the South ...
An important event occurred on the voyage, when the Mayflower was two months out from England, and the discomforts of a crowded ...
and large supplies of provisions, tools, and arms. But that was as nothing to a great fleet which set out in 1630, with 700 sett ...
ancient national myth or prescriptive legends but solid facts, set down in the matter-of-fact writings of the time. We know in c ...
was the same general climate. Odd, then, that the English, who came to the Americas comparatively late, got their hands on those ...
naturalist, who explored the forests in the years 1629-32, and published his findings two years later in New England's Prospects ...
received from Indian example, especially in growing corn, 'ye manner, how to set it, and after, how to dress & tend it.' The ...
conducted by men chosen by all the full members of the congregation. These were the freemen, and they were recruited in batches ...
the Bible in its various translations, but particularly in the magnificent new King James version, passed into the common tongue ...
That was all very well in theory. But the difficulty of applying it in practice was illustrated by the vicissitudes of Winthrop' ...
settled at a crowded outdoor meeting in Cambridge. There was a great danger of a tumult that day. [The antinomians] grew into fi ...
Winthrop's career and views raised fundamental issues at the time, which have continued to reverberate through American history ...
important political fact in American history is its grandeur and its mystery. For three centuries, almost until 1900, there were ...
Winthrop was out of office at the time, or he might perhaps have taken a similar view. But, nursing his own wrongs, he concluded ...
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