Puritan Boston Tests Democracy for Android

11 things about Puritan Boston Tests Democracy

1. Bremer, scholars Margaret Bendroth, Lori Rogers Stokes and Emerson Baker referenced the collections of the Congregational Library & Archives and its partner historical institutions in Boston and relied on multiple resources.

2. You can even walk through Boston with a GPS enabled iPhone or iPad device and watch your user position change as you intersect the location of important historical events, and visit the landmarks described and geo-referenced in the app.

3. The app has been created by the Congregational Library & Archive and funded in part by Mass Humanities which receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

4. The app also includes more than 30 sites as well as biographical information on over 30 individuals, from Governor John Winthrop who called upon his fellow colonists to create a society that would be as “a City upon a Hill” to dissenters such as Anne Hutchinson.

5. The app includes over forty formative events from 1629 to 1691, long before Boston became the cradle of the American Revolution.

6. Puritan Boston Tests Democracy is a comprehensive and interactive digital reference to the first 60 years of Boston’s history.

7. You can use the guide to visit the events that transformed a close knit community of like-minded people into a busy commercial town.

8. You can access original resources with links that take you to sources in the Congregational Library & Archives’ manuscript collection and consult the bibliography.

9. The events are geo-referenced, so you can use it as a guide to trace activities and follow the story with special tours.

10. The story is told in 21 short chapters, providing an easy to use informative and enjoyable experience for the tourist, amateur historian, educator or researcher.

11. You will take away a new appreciation for the complex and diverse world of early Boston and Massachusetts, in person, or from the comfort of your home.