Early settlers to the Massachusetts Bay Colony were not interested in religious freedom. They created a theocracy—a society led and bound by the rules of one religious sect.

I wanted to see old New York, the earliest New York, the Lenni Lenape land of Mannahatta (“island of many hills”), the 1624 ...

The transfer of power from the Dutch to the English was more like a strategic merger, historian Russell Shorto contends.