This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. There is no holiday more American than Thanksgiving – and perhaps none with origins so shrouded in comforting ...
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There is no holiday more American than Thanksgiving – and perhaps none with origins so shrouded in comforting myths. The story is simple enough. In 1620 a group of English Protestant dissenters known ...
Wendy Warren, an assistant professor of history at Princeton University, specializes in the history of colonial North America and the early modern Atlantic world. She joined the University in 2010 ...
Mercantilism is an economic policy designed to increase a nation's wealth through exports. It thrived in Great Britain ...
In this continuing series on the origins of Catholicism in the 50 states, the story of New England begins in a region that ...
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