Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When winter cold settles in across the U.S., the alleged “War on Christmas” heats up. In recent years, department store greeters ...

Editor’s note: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Every November, numerous articles recount the arrival of 17th-century ...

In “How the Woke Stole Christmas” (Free Expression, Dec. 22), Gerard Baker might as well have quoted Lord Macaulay’s smear: “The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but ...

Many things influence human behavior, and I don’t claim to understand all of them. I have had the most experience with the early New England Puritans' influence on how Americans act and react to the ...

Hand-colored engraving of Puritans about to embark for America.(Alamy) When the word “Puritan” entered the English language almost 500 years ago, it came as an insult—a “soul-killing Nick-name,” as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Going To Church,' N.C. Wyeth (1941). Archival photograph, Brandywine River Museum library, Edward J. S. Seal Collection. When ...