Francis J. Bremer is Professor Emeritus of History at Millersville University and the Coordinator of New England Beginnings, a partnership formed to commemorate the cultures that shaped New England four hundred years ago. An eminent scholar of Puritanism in the Atlantic world, he is the author of the prize-winning John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father (OUP, 2003); First Founders: American Puritans and Puritanism in the Atlantic World; and Building a New Jerusalem: John Davenport, a Puritan in Three Worlds, among other titles.