TODAY in HISTORY: Roger Williams and San Francisco

It is one of those curious coincidences of American history. But on this date–October 9th– Roger Williams, a dissident preacher, was “banned from Boston” (in 1635) and Junipero Serra dedicated Mission Dolores in what would become San Francisco (in 1776). Separated by more than century and a continent, they might seem like unconnected events. But [...]