Summary of Cotton Mather’s Magnalia Christi Americana

A 17th Century History and Commentary of New England

[Our primary focus in the coming months is on the influences and events that led to and shaped the birth of the United States as an independent nation in 1776. In previous blogs we examined some of the political and legal reasoning that occurred back in Europe in the 1600s and below we list a few documents in the American colonies in the first third of …