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Traces the story of the judge responsible for executing twenty Salem witch trial victims, discussing how he came to regret his actions, and his later efforts to oppose slavery and further Native American relations and sexual equality.

This book traces the history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and discusses the background, development, and impact of the 1629 Charter.

This book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created...

A guide to Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", offering biographical information about the author, analysis of the text, a character list, and critical excerpts.

Looks at how the lives of John Winthrop, governor of Massachusetts, and Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Puritan Commonwealth in England, were intertwined at a time of conflict between church and state and between Native and European Americans.

While her lover's identity remains a secret, a young woman in 18th-century New England is condemned to wear a scarlet A in atonement for her sin of passion and birth of a child out of wedlock.

A manga adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," in which Hester Prynne is condemned by Puritan law to wear a scarlet "A," as punishment for birthing an illegitimate child.