puritans

When Elspeth, a hardworking Puritan girl, receives a cornhusk doll from a Pequot Indian, her mother fears that Elspeth will become idle.

In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.

In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.

Presents a short biography on Roger Williams who founded the colony of Rhode Island as a refuge for those who wanted to break with the Puritan beliefs of Massachusetts colony and profiles his life, values, and association with the Native Americans around him.

Presents a short biography of Anne Hutchinson, her youth in England and journey to America in 1634, her campaign against slavery and other injustices, her death in 1643, and the legacy she left behind.

Classic tale about Hester Prynne, her lover, their child, and Hester's husband, and the effect of sin on the mind and spirit of these characters.

Examines the lives and society of the Puritans in New England from the time of their arrival on the Mayflower at Plymouth in 1620, discussing religion, work, health and medicine, and the Puritan home.