Harvard University announced Thursday it will drop the first name of its John Winthrop House, responding to long-standing ...

Harvard College’s John Winthrop House will keep its last name but lose its first after yearslong calls to distance the undergraduate residence from its namesake, whom historians believe was a ...

After an introduction by Stephen Kendrick, who is Senior Minister of the First AND Second Church in Boston, Professor Francis Bremer talked about his book, [John Winthrop: America's Forgotten ...

President Alan Garber accepted the recommendations of a committee reviewing the name, which they suggested should be ...

Winthrop — named after the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s second governor, John Winthrop — was settled in 1630, making it one of the oldest towns in the country.

Life and Letters of John Winthrop, From His Embarkation for New England in 1630, With the Charter and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, to His Death in 1649. February 1867 Issue. Share.

The document, “A Model of Christian Charity,” was written, the story goes, as a lay sermon delivered by John Winthrop, the elected governor of a community of Puritans, to his followers in 1630 ...

Winthrop gave that speech not to pound his chest but to beat it. If we aren't humble and meek -- at least in Winthrop's telling -- the good ship Arbella could well end up at the bottom of the sea.

A modern-day John Winthrop, age 79 and a descendant of that early governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, trekked from his home in Charleston, S.C., to participate in the dedication.