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86The Salem Witches and Mass Hysteria
The Salem Witch Trials were a perfect example of Mass Hysteria. But how exactly did it come to be, and can it happen again ?
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85Poetic Drama
Poetic drama is not merely a drama which is written in verse, because prose may also be its effective medium. It is, in fact, a blending of the poetic and dramatic elements in a fruitful union. Here poetry is an integral part of the play, twined...
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85Why Did the Puritans Really Leave England For The New World?
Most people see the Puritans as victims of religious persecution that had to flee England in order to be free to live and practice their religion as they chose? But is this the whole truth and were the New England Colonies that they established places of religious tolerance and freedom of thought?
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8517th Century England
The Virgin Queen Elizabeth died in 1603, after ruling England forty-five years. Queen Elizabeth employed an astrologer, John Dee (1527-1608), and it was he who invented the term "Great Britain." The English throne passed to King James Stuart of...
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84Religious Freedom in British North American Colonies Before 1700
Many of the British American colonies that eventually formed a part of the USA were populated by European settlers, who were persecuted for their religious beliefs back home, but they held on passionately to...
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83First Names in History
Popular first names go in trends over the decades, but the history of first names is more surprising than you may realize. See if your name is mentioned in this article about the history of first names!
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83What Ever Happened to the Mayflower?
What ever happened to that fabled wooden ship that carried the Pilgrims from England to the new world? Nobody really knows.
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82Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist: A Reflection of Contemporary Society as it Relates to Immorality and Hypocrisy
For centuries in London, the Plague presented a very real danger to its citizens. However, some people were more concerned with other, moral dangers that city life offered, like prostitution, alcoholism, drug addiction, gambling, or cony-catching....
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82The Puritans
The ideas of the Puritans have been balanced throughout American history by the ideas of the Enlightenment, particularly the Scottish Enlightenment. The tension—and compromise—between these ideas has been a part of America since its founding....
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82Tyranny and Triumph at Runnymede: John, Magna Carta, and the Foundation of Western Liberty
King John of England is the whipping boy of constitutional history. Held in such contempt, no other king of England has been given what is an otherwise common English name. But he did have some other names. John was called “John Lackland”...
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