After suffering through years of history lessons about the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and John Winthrop’s role in shaping his “city upon a hill,” one would think that (yet another) novel ...

Leave it to Sarah Vowell to unravel the most tight-laced of American archetypes: the New England Puritan. In "The Wordy Shipmates," Vowell's latest romp through U.S. history, the wisecracking essayist ...

You know Sarah Vowell as an NPR contributor and the voice of Violet Parr in The Incredibles. But she’s also a pretty awesome writer. The author of Assassination Vacation and The Wordy Shipmates brings ...

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NPR contributor and author Sarah Vowell’s latest book, The Wordy Shipmates, offers a history of the Pilgrims for a generation raised on reality TV. The contentious and not so Puritanical group was ...

A friend of ours recently revealed that he decided to become a social studies teacher because of Sarah Vowell. And anyone who has read Assassination Vacation or The Wordy Shipmates will have no ...

Sarah Vowell, author of four bestselling books and a contributing editor for public radio?s BThis American Life,C will read from her recently released fifth book, BThe Wordy Shipmates,C at 7 p.m.

As Sarah Vowell warns early on in The Wordy Shipmates, “Readers who squirm at microscopic theological differences might be unsuited to read a book about seventeenth-century Christians.” She’s right, ...

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Happy Days, to be sure, but also her admiration for the Puritans' ability to sustain religious difference and still maintain community. It's a conversation about today's world in the guise of one ...