The first person to define these freedoms in a modern sense was Roger Williams ... such post in America. He declined—because he considered their church insufficiently pure. Williams became ...

Although Roger Williams is not a household name ... And Yale’s Edmund Morgan, arguably America’s leading colonial historian, noted that Williams “wrote most often, most effectively, and ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Roger Williams was one of the most influential figures of Colonial America and yet his remains were unheralded until the Great Depression, when the government finished the ...

Native American families camped nearby ... carried the rest on his sloop to Newport to be auctioned off. Roger Williams helped build a colonial world that began with utopian hopes, including ...

Barry’s new book “Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul ... Williams, for those who don’t remember their colonial history, founded the European settlement that gave rise ...

Roger Williams, known best as the founder of ... Williams was a unique character in America's early colonial history. Driven by, above all else, a fierce devotion to a demanding God, Williams ...

The film depicts the life of Roger Williams, a man who fled England to escape religious persecution and sought to establish a colony in America based ... of worship, colonial history Email us ...

The lost legacy of 17th century theologian Roger Williams, prophet of American religious pluralism ... They reflect a sense of “gentlemanly cordiality” in 17th-century colonial life. Winthrop was a ...

For more than a century, a small, leather-bound book has sat collecting dust and attracting little attention in a gray stone library on the corner of Brown University’s Main Green in Providence ...