John Winthrop

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Roger Williams liked Indians and almost everyone else, and he founded a colony that gave our freedom a broader horizon</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Thus Margaret Winthrop to her spouse, the governor of the Bay Colony. Her letters—and John’s in reply—reveal behind the cold Puritan exterior a warm and deeply touching relationship</span> </span></p>

<p>She was, said Governor Winthrop, an American Jezebel</p>

<p><span class="deck">It was a bankrupt ruin by the 1660s, but the Saugus Ironworks foretold America’s industrial might.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Thomas Morton liked the lush country, the Indians liked Thomas—and the stern Puritans cared little for either</span> </p>

<p>The British seize Manhattan from the Dutch in 1664 — and alter the trajectory of North American history.</p>