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 ...

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

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 ...

John Winthrop, writing of his youth when he had grown to the full exalted stature of Christian manhood, and though sweetly mellowed in the graces of Ins character by genial ripening from within ...

Winthrop, John; Life and Letters, by R. C. Winthrop. By this noble volume Mr. WINTHROP is worthily acquitting himself of the debt he owes to a long and unblemished line of ancestors, as the heir ...

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.

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.

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