When English colonizers landed in New England in 1630, they constructed a godly commonwealth according to precepts gleaned from Scripture. For these 'Puritan' C

A fictionalized episode from the life of Anne Hutchinson, who arrived with her family in Massachusetts in 1634, but was soon banished for holding religious meet

Her steps were determined and steady, even though the plank of the wooden ship bobbed up and down in the glittering but frigid water that splashed against the w

Prologue: Anne Hutchinson and the Controversy -- The Puritan Experiment: Errors and Trials -- Helpmeets, Mothers, and Midwives among the Patriarchs -- Sectarian