Puritans

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• 5/31/2020
  

  Trump and the Puritans

  by Martyn Whittock

  No one would ever call Donald Trump a Puritan. But the 17th century religious movement is a foundation of Trump's America.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/8/2020
  

  A Puritan Minister Incited Fury by Pushing Inoculation Against a Smallpox Epidemic

  In 1721, Boston’s colonists greeted Cotton Mather’s proposal with a terror that bordered on hysteria.  

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• 6/25/18
  

  Review of James A. Warren's "God, War, and Providence: The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansetts against the Puritans of New England"

  by Luther Spoehr

  Roger Williams didn't just found Rhode Island.  He worked to maintain peace in New England for almost 40 years.

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• SOURCE: Democracy
  11-13-15
  

  Stacy Schiff taken to task for stereotyping the Puritans in her new book about the Salem Witchcraft Trials

  She salts "her account of the trials with anachronisms that serve our prejudices."

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  7-1-15
  

  Prep Schools, “Diversity,” and Puritan Conscience

  by Jim Sleeper

  What we can still learn from the Puritans. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  2-6-15
  

  The Puritans Were America's First Anti-Vaxxers

  by Peter Manseau

  The anti-vaccine movement today is not solely a religious in character, but much of its rhetoric is identical to theological arguments made against inoculation more than three hundred years ago.