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Back to SearchThe Wages of the Covenant - The Praying Indians
Season 3 Episode 2
Most native people in colonial New England did not die in the wars. They became colonists.
The standard story runs: encounter, conflict, destruction. …
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The Wages of the Covenant - The Children of the Covenant
Season 3 Episode 1
The Bay Colony in 1660 had survived everything its founders feared. It had built its courts and churches and its college on a standard that separated…
5 years, 4 months ago
The Covenant & the Charter - Above or Below the Law
Season 2 Episode 8
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was not built despite England's crisis — it was built because of it. Without Charles I's eleven years of personal rule, …
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The Covenant & the Charter - New Amsterdam
Season 2 Episode 7
While the Bay Colony was banishing Roger Williams and burning Pequot villages, something entirely different was being built three hundred miles to th…
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The Covenant & the Charter - The Pequot War
Season 2 Episode 6
In July 1636, a Boston trader named John Gallop sailed alongside a drifting pinnace off Block Island and found his friend John Oldham dead inside it …
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The Covenant & the Charter - Visible Saints
Season 2 Episode 5
In 1634, a woman arrived in Boston who had been reading theology since childhood — trained on her father’s heresy trial transcript, devoted to a prea…
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The Covenant & the Charter - The Garden and the Wilderness
Season 2 Episode 4
Providence in 1636 was a handful of houses and a radical idea — that the state had no business in a person's relationship with God. The Bay Colony to…
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The Covenant & the Charter - Soul Liberty
Season 2 Episode 3
By 1634, the Massachusetts Bay Colony had survived its first winters, built its courts and churches, and prepared to fight England itself to protect …
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The Covenant & the Charter - The Body Politic
Season 2 Episode 2
By 1631 the city on the hill was no longer dying. Margaret Winthrop arrived in Boston harbor that November on the Lyon, sixteen months after John had…
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The Covenant & the Charter - The City on the Hill
Season 2 Episode 1
March 1630. Eleven ships leave Southampton carrying seven hundred Puritan settlers — not refugees scraping for survival, but lawyers, craftsmen, land…
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