William F. Ricketson, To Be Young, Poor, and Alone: The Experience of Widowhood in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1675-1676, The New England Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 1 ...

The New England Quarterly, founded in 1928, is best described by its subtitle, A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters. Through major essays, memoranda and edited documents, ...

Interior view of a 17th century Massachusetts Bay Colony House, shows furniture and a fur rug on the floor. In 1957, the house was installed inside the United States National Museum, now known as the ...

Hutchinson (1591-1643) was a Puritan spiritual adviser, the mother of 15 and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy, which shook the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638.