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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...