The Puritans and New England — most people today can’t think of one without the other. That’s because while the English religious group we call the Puritans migrated from England to South America, the Caribbean, and Canada, it’s only in what they called New England that their culture became well-defined — and dominant.
Today, centuries after the last Puritan lived here, what do modern-day New Englanders inherit from these well-known but not well-understood people? Dr. Lori Rogers-Stokes shared three important ideas from the 17th century that New Englanders are still practicing today.
