William Penn played a crucial role in the articulation of religious liberty as a philosophical and political value during the second half of the seventeenth cen

In a seventeenth-century English landscape populated with towering political and philosophical figures like Hobbes, Harrington, Cromwell, Milton, and Locke, Wil

It may surprise many that William Penn, who founded one of the thirteen original American colonies, spent just four years on American soil. Even more surprising

This volume, covering the years 1680 to 1684, documents the founding of Pennsylvania.