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An herbalist-midwife staunchly loyal to Anne Hutchinson during her two heresy trials, Nell Benedict relates the personal, political, and religious difficulties that beset Hutchinson during the 1630's.

Anne Hutchinson was perhaps the most famous English-woman in colonial American history, viewed in later centuries as a crusader for religious liberty and a prototypical feminist. Michael Winship, author of the highly acclaimed account of her oft-told tale, disentangling what really happened from the legends that have misrepresented her for so long. As Winship shows, although the trials of Anne Hutchinson and her allies were used ostensibly to protect...

Tells the story of the victims, the accused witches, and the scheming officials that turned a mysterious illness into a witch hunt.

Return to Colonial New England for a fresh look at the infamous events of Puritan Salem.

Puritans did not find a life free from tyranny in the New World-they created it there. Massachusetts emerged a republic as they hammered out a vision of popular participation and limited government in church and state, spurred by Plymouth Pilgrims. Godly Republicanism underscores how pathbreaking yet rooted in puritanism's history the project was.Michael Winship takes us first to England, where he uncovers the roots of the puritans' republican ideals...