Penn's Treaty with the Indians

Histories of the United States often begin with an evocation of the “first” contact made by European explorers with the territories that would become the American nation, but this is at best an imprecise and misleading enterprise. Was it the Norsemen who are thought to have visited New England as early as the eleventh century, or the Spanish military and religious men who first...

​The Bermuda Group commemorates Dean George Berkeley’s ill-fated attempt to found a seminary in Bermuda “for the better supplying of churches in our foreign plantations and for converting the savage Americans to Christianity...