Puritans (nonfiction)

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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War 3.89 avg rating — 45,338 ratings
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Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty
Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty 4.24 avg rating — 1,089 ratings
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Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World
Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World 3.65 avg rating — 423 ratings
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The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity 3.94 avg rating — 2,177 ratings
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King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict
King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict 3.68 avg rating — 422 ratings
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This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving 4.23 avg rating — 1,021 ratings
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Mayflower Lives: Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience
Mayflower Lives: Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience 3.93 avg rating — 214 ratings
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American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans
American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans 3.59 avg rating — 1,741 ratings
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A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience 3.84 avg rating — 1,319 ratings
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A Model of Christian Charity
A Model of Christian Charity 2.65 avg rating — 402 ratings
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Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 3.99 avg rating — 1,810 ratings
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The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony
The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony 3.75 avg rating — 223 ratings
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The Peril and Promise of Christian Liberty: Richard Hooker, the Puritans, and Protestant Political Theology (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion
The Peril and Promise of Christian Liberty: Richard Hooker, the Puritans, and Protestant Political Theology (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America
Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America 3.93 avg rating — 200 ratings
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The Light and the Glory for Young Readers: 1492-1793 (Discovering God's Plan for America #1)
The Light and the Glory for Young Readers: 1492-1793 (Discovering God's Plan for America #1) 4.20 avg rating — 56 ratings
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A Stranger Among Saints: Stephen Hopkins, the Man Who Survived Jamestown and Saved Plymouth
A Stranger Among Saints: Stephen Hopkins, the Man Who Survived Jamestown and Saved Plymouth 3.95 avg rating — 143 ratings
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American Colonies: The Settling of North America
American Colonies: The Settling of North America 4.08 avg rating — 4,546 ratings
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Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity) 4.13 avg rating — 381 ratings
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Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea
Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea 3.92 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Mayflower Bastard: A Stranger Among the Pilgrims
Mayflower Bastard: A Stranger Among the Pilgrims 3.47 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity) 3.85 avg rating — 54 ratings
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In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial 4.06 avg rating — 21,528 ratings
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Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts 3.63 avg rating — 14,860 ratings
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The Selling Of Joseph
The Selling Of Joseph 3.62 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions
The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions 4.54 avg rating — 13,588 ratings
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Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647
Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647 3.50 avg rating — 2,174 ratings
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A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life
A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life 4.60 avg rating — 436 ratings
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Jonathan Edwards: A Life
Jonathan Edwards: A Life 4.34 avg rating — 2,220 ratings
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Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were
Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were 4.20 avg rating — 546 ratings
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A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards (Library of Religious Biography
A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards (Library of Religious Biography 4.12 avg rating — 868 ratings
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Piercing Heaven: Prayers of the Puritans
Piercing Heaven: Prayers of the Puritans 4.62 avg rating — 473 ratings
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Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England
Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England 3.68 avg rating — 239 ratings
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Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson 2.88 avg rating — 3,572 ratings
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God’s Battle Plan for the Mind: The Puritan Practice of Biblical Meditation
God’s Battle Plan for the Mind: The Puritan Practice of Biblical Meditation 4.48 avg rating — 750 ratings
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The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials
The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials 3.60 avg rating — 939 ratings
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Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England
Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England 3.92 avg rating — 321 ratings
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Tyrannicide: Forging an American Law of Slavery in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts
Tyrannicide: Forging an American Law of Slavery in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings
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A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life
A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life 4.34 avg rating — 2,688 ratings
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Pilgrim Confidential: Shocking True Stories of the Pilgrims in the Strange New World
Pilgrim Confidential: Shocking True Stories of the Pilgrims in the Strange New World 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Pilgrim Chronicles: An Eyewitness History of the Pilgrims and the Founding of Plymouth Colony
The Pilgrim Chronicles: An Eyewitness History of the Pilgrims and the Founding of Plymouth Colony
by: Rod Gragg
4.16 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet
Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet 4.04 avg rating — 220 ratings
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Flintlock and Tomahawk: New England in King Philip's War
Flintlock and Tomahawk: New England in King Philip's War 4.07 avg rating — 99 ratings
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The Sunlight Pilgrims
The Sunlight Pilgrims 3.60 avg rating — 2,820 ratings
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Thanksgiving:: The Pilgrims' First Year in America
Thanksgiving:: The Pilgrims' First Year in America 4.13 avg rating — 217 ratings
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Winter Pilgrims (Kingmaker, #1)
Winter Pilgrims (Kingmaker, #1) 4.08 avg rating — 2,036 ratings
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Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community Among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600 1871
Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community Among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600 1871 3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Experiences of Five Christian Indians, of the Pequod Tribe
The Experiences of Five Christian Indians, of the Pequod Tribe really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Plymouth Colony: Its History & People, 1620-1691
Plymouth Colony: Its History & People, 1620-1691 4.07 avg rating — 117 ratings
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City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present
City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present 3.96 avg rating — 92 ratings
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The First Settlers of New-England: Or Conquest of the Pequods, Narragansets and Pokanokets: As Related by a Mother to Her Children
The First Settlers of New-England: Or Conquest of the Pequods, Narragansets and Pokanokets: As Related by a Mother to Her Children 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston
Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston 3.63 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Indian Wars of New England: Topography of Indian Tribes. the Early Settler and the Indian. the Pequod War. Wars of the Mohegans
Indian Wars of New England: Topography of Indian Tribes. the Early Settler and the Indian. the Pequod War. Wars of the Mohegans 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Puritan Pedigrees: The Deep Roots of the Great Migration to New England
Puritan Pedigrees: The Deep Roots of the Great Migration to New England 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln
Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln 4.11 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Secret Founding of America: The Real Story of Freemasons, Puritans, and the Battle for The New World
The Secret Founding of America: The Real Story of Freemasons, Puritans, and the Battle for The New World 3.27 avg rating — 81 ratings
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The Cultural Life of the American Colonies
The Cultural Life of the American Colonies 3.71 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop
The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop 3.43 avg rating — 776 ratings
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Puritan's Empire
Puritan's Empire 4.56 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England
Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England 3.81 avg rating — 203 ratings
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John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father
John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father 3.88 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Prospero's America: John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 1606-1676 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early ... and the University of North Carolina Press)
Prospero's America: John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 1606-1676 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early ... and the University of North Carolina Press) 4.09 avg rating — 34 ratings
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John Winthrop, Oliver Cromwell, and the Land of Promise
John Winthrop, Oliver Cromwell, and the Land of Promise 3.67 avg rating — 27 ratings
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From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765
From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765 3.72 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Red Brethren: The Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians and the Problem of Race in Early America
Red Brethren: The Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians and the Problem of Race in Early America 3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings
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World of John Winthrop: England And New England, 1588-1649
World of John Winthrop: England And New England, 1588-1649 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The First American Founder: Roger Williams and Freedom of Conscience
The First American Founder: Roger Williams and Freedom of Conscience 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500–1830
Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500–1830 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 3.93 avg rating — 1,081 ratings
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The Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic Relations in Seventeenth-Century New England
The Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic Relations in Seventeenth-Century New England 3.84 avg rating — 174 ratings
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In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life
In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life 3.96 avg rating — 1,048 ratings
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Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England 4.10 avg rating — 3,912 ratings
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Roger Williams: The Church and the State
Roger Williams: The Church and the State 3.95 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Puritan Political Ideas, 1558-1794
Puritan Political Ideas, 1558-1794 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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First Founders: American Puritans and Puritanism in an Atlantic World
First Founders: American Puritans and Puritanism in an Atlantic World 3.54 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795
The Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Faith & Vision of Benjamin Franklin: How the Skeptical Printer of Philadelphia Returned to His Puritan Roots & the Puritan Vision of a Christian America
The Faith & Vision of Benjamin Franklin: How the Skeptical Printer of Philadelphia Returned to His Puritan Roots & the Puritan Vision of a Christian America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Departing Glory: Eight Jeremiads of Increase Mather
Departing Glory: Eight Jeremiads of Increase Mather 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia
Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Call to the Tempted. a Sermon on the Horrid Crime of Self-Murder, Preached on a Remarkable Occasion, by the Memorable Dr. Increase Mather. and Now ... Suicides. [five Lines of Quotation in Latin].
A Call to the Tempted. a Sermon on the Horrid Crime of Self-Murder, Preached on a Remarkable Occasion, by the Memorable Dr. Increase Mather. and Now ... Suicides. [five Lines of Quotation in Latin]. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution
God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution 3.83 avg rating — 385 ratings
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The way to prosperity A sermon preached to the honourable convention of the governour, council, and representatives of the Massachuset-Colony in New-England: on May 23. 1689. By Cotton Mather. (1690)
The way to prosperity A sermon preached to the honourable convention of the governour, council, and representatives of the Massachuset-Colony in New-England: on May 23. 1689. By Cotton Mather. (1690) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution
The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution 4.13 avg rating — 1,381 ratings
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The folly of sinning, opened and applyed in two sermons occasioned by the [condemnation] of one that was [executed at] Boston in New-England, [on] November 17th, 1698 / by Increase Mather... (1699)
The folly of sinning, opened and applyed in two sermons occasioned by the [condemnation] of one that was [executed at] Boston in New-England, [on] November 17th, 1698 / by Increase Mather... (1699) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Milton and the English Revolution
Milton and the English Revolution 4.23 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Heavens alarm to the world, or, A sermon wherein is shewed that fearful sights and signs in heaven are the presages of great calamities at hand by Increase Mather ... (1681)
Heavens alarm to the world, or, A sermon wherein is shewed that fearful sights and signs in heaven are the presages of great calamities at hand by Increase Mather ... (1681) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution
The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution 4.04 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Israel's Mourning for Aaron's Death: A Sermon Preached on the Lord's-Day After the Death of the Very Reverend and Learned Cotton Mather, D. D. And F. ... This Life, February 13; 1727, 8. Æt; LXVI
Israel's Mourning for Aaron's Death: A Sermon Preached on the Lord's-Day After the Death of the Very Reverend and Learned Cotton Mather, D. D. And F. ... This Life, February 13; 1727, 8. Æt; LXVI 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution it Inspired
Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution it Inspired really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 441 ratings
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A good man making a good end the life and death of the Reverend Mr. John Baily, comprised and expressed in a sermon on the day of his funeral, Thursday, 16. d. 10. m. 1697 / by Cotton Mather. (1698)
A good man making a good end the life and death of the Reverend Mr. John Baily, comprised and expressed in a sermon on the day of his funeral, Thursday, 16. d. 10. m. 1697 / by Cotton Mather. (1698) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Departure of Elijah Lamented: A Sermon Occasioned by the Great and Publick Loss in the Decease of the Very Reverend and Learned Cotton Mather, ... the North Church in Boston
The Departure of Elijah Lamented: A Sermon Occasioned by the Great and Publick Loss in the Decease of the Very Reverend and Learned Cotton Mather, ... the North Church in Boston 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Day of Doom: Or, a Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgement; With Other Poems; Also a Memoir of the Author, Autobiography, and Sketch ... by Rev. Cotton Mather
The Day of Doom: Or, a Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgement; With Other Poems; Also a Memoir of the Author, Autobiography, and Sketch ... by Rev. Cotton Mather 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving 4.23 avg rating — 1,021 ratings
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Terror to the Wicked: America's First Trial by Jury That Ended a War and Helped to Form a Nation
Terror to the Wicked: America's First Trial by Jury That Ended a War and Helped to Form a Nation 3.39 avg rating — 141 ratings
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America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation
America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation 3.56 avg rating — 2,597 ratings
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The Puritans: A Transatlantic History
The Puritans: A Transatlantic History 3.81 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Puritan Prayers, Poems & Meditations: Collection of Authentic Puritan Prayers, Poems & Devotions
Puritan Prayers, Poems & Meditations: Collection of Authentic Puritan Prayers, Poems & Devotions 3.48 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism
The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism 4.15 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Puritan Origins of the American Self
The Puritan Origins of the American Self 3.70 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia
Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia 3.81 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Puritan Way of Death: A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change (Galaxy Books)
The Puritan Way of Death: A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change (Galaxy Books) 3.78 avg rating — 92 ratings
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