Reconsidering King Philip’s War
Date/Time
Date(s) - 02/07/2018
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Massachusetts Historical Society
Categories
WitchesMassBay note: Mary Beth Norton’s book, In the Devil’s Snare, highlighted connections between Native American conflicts and the 1692 witch trials.
Two historians reexamine the narrative of one of colonial America’s most devastating conflicts. Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the First Indian War by relaying the stories of Weetamoo, a female Wampanoag leader, and James Printer, a Nipmuc scholar, whose stories converge in the captivity of Mary Rowlandson. Christine DeLucia offers a major reconsideration of the war, providing an alternative to Pilgrim-centric narratives that have dominated the histories of colonial New England, grounding her study in five specific places that were directly affected by the crisis, spanning the Northeast as well as the Atlantic world. These two works offer new perspectives. The program will include short presentations by both scholars followed by a conversation.
Lisa Brooks is the author of Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (2018)
Christine M. DeLucia is the author of Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast (2018)