Massachusetts Bay Colony

Royal Governor Thomas Gage of the Massachusetts Bay Colony ordered British Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith to conduct an undercover operation to destroy ammunition stockpiled by the colonists in Concord, Massachusetts. The British government believed that the colonists were about to attempt to…

<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="body">How far back in American history can we find the old shell game in operation? Alas, pretty far. </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><span class="deck">Did the Fathers in 1620 really land on that famous slab of granite? Through the haze of myth that surround it, a profound truth may be dimly seen</span></p>

<p>Many a book, a magazine, a play, a movie, has been banned in Boston. But Christmas?</p>

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

<p>The broad expanse of ocean that separated Plymouth from Mother England helped create a novel experiment in democracy that grew as the American colonies expanded.</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>