Whether these stories were told in the writings of Frost or Harriet Beecher Stowe, enacted in historical pageants or at colonial revival museums, or conveyed in the pages of a geography textbook or Yankee magazine, New Englanders used them ...

A history of colonial New England, this work synthesizes the scholarship to explore how Puritan saints and "strangers" to Puritanism participated in the making of colonial New England.

In Joseph A. Conforti’s engrossing retelling, the case of Lizzie Borden, sensational in itself, also opens a window on a time and place in American history and culture.

As the charismatic leader of the wave of religious revivals known as the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) is one of the most important figures in American religious history.

Samuel Hopkins was the closest friend and disciple of the man generally considered to be the greatest religious thinker America has produced--Jonathan Edwards.

Taken together, their body of work composes a remarkable literary map of a diverse and changing Maine. "Hidden Places" explores the identity of Maine through its writers and the people and places they wrote of"--

A searching portrait of a city battered by the collapse of the textile industry woven into a spirited coming of age story