The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.

He left the self-conscious literary demimonde of New York for the quiet infidelities of New England.

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.

Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.

My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

The starting point for the new history, both in Europe and America, has been the record of births, marriages, and deaths, which most literate societies preserve in one form or another. In colonial America, surviving records of this kind - as of every other kind - are most abundant for New England.