Delbanco, Andrew.The Puritan Ordeal. Harvard University Press, 1989, 1991. Chronicles the history of the Puritan settlers in 17th-century America.
Durston, Christopher, and Jacqueline Eales, eds.The Culture of English Puritanism, 1560-1700. St. Martin's, 1996. An examination of what it meant to live within the Puritan milieu in the late Elizabethan and Restoration periods.