Studies in American Origins - 1.Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker: Torchbearer of the Revolution: The Story of Bacon's Rebellion and its Leaders. Princeton University Press, 1940. $2.2$. - 2.Samuel Hugh Brockunier: The Irrepressible Democrat Roger Williams. New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1940. $4.00. - 3.Perry Miller: The New England Mind of the Seventeenth Century. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939. $3.75. - 4.Marcus Lee Hansen: The Atlantic Migration 1607–1860, A History of the Continuing Settlement of the United States; edited by Arthur M. Schlesinger. Harvard University Press, 1940. $3.50. - 5.Marcus Lee Hansen: The Immigrant in American History; edited with a foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger. Harvard University Press, 1940. $2.50.

1941 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-268
Author(s):  
Thomas T. McAvoy
1941 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Feist Hirsch

Many people in the United States today feel that England is fighting a battle that is also their own. The English people, on the other hand, note with great satisfaction and gratitude the sympathy that the United States displays for their life and death struggle. A similar mutual interest existed between the American colonies of the seventeenth century and the England of the age of the Revolution. We have only to look at the many impassioned controversies on both sides of the Atlantic. They tell us a lively story of the exchange of ideas between Old and New England. Robert Baillie, Samuel Rutherford, William Twiss, three outstanding members of the Westminster Assembly, engaged in long arguments with John Cotton on various problems of doctrine and church government. John Cotton and other New England ministers in long pamphlets answered any reproaches of heresy made by the English or Scotch Presbyterians. It is safe to say, furthermore, that the controversy between John Cotton and Roger Williams, with which we are here concerned, would never have been started without Williams's participation in the debates of the Long Parliament in 1643/44.


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