If ever a story was ripe for fresh interpretation during the year of the "War on Women," Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is it. A tale of puritanical judgment and condemnation of a woman for ...

Think America has outgrown its Puritan beginnings? Think again. Slut shaming may be on the decline, but it's far from extinct. And nothing makes that more apparent than re-reading The Scarlet Letter.

Enjoy an exclusive preview of an auction of the novelist’s papers, which feature rarely seen edits and atrocious penmanship Ted Scheinman - Senior Editor The sale is by far the largest, and certainly ...

In 1667, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, tensions simmer between the local Puritan settlers and the neighboring Algonquian tribe. As Metacomet succeeds as the tribal chief during his father's funeral ...