Here is The Associated Press: BOSTON (AP) — A living history museum in Massachusetts focused on colonial life on the English settlement at Plymouth is planning to change its name to better reflect the Native Americans that long lived in...
17th century
Commemorating the Mayflower
400 years ago this year the Mayflower landed on present-day Cape Cod. Over at The New York Times, Tanya Mohn writes about how the United States, England, and the Netherlands will commemorate the event later this year. A taste: Paula...
On Rudy Giuliani and the Salem Witch Trials
In case you missed it, here is yet another example of a politician’s sloppy use of history. Even Salem witch trials didn’t use anonymous testimony. The accused had to be confronted by a witness willing to put their name...
An Introduction to the Winthrop Family Papers
Peter Olsen-Harbich, a Ph.D Candidate at William & Mary, reflects on his experience working with the Winthrop Family Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Here is a taste: Among the austere manuscripts of the Massachusetts Historical Society’s collection resides an...
Mapping 1648 Boston
Who lived in Boston in 1648? History professor Chris Parsons and his team at Northeastern University have initiated the “Birth of Boston” project. The centerpiece of the project is an interactive map of Boston in 1648 that allows users to...
Author’s Corner with Elisabeth Ceppi
Elisabeth Ceppi is Associate Professor of English at Portland State University. This interview is based on her new book Invisible Masters: Gender, Race, and the Economy of Service in Early New England (Dartmouth University Press, 2018). JF: What led you to write Invisible...
The Author’s Corner With L.H. Roper
L.H. Roper is Professor of History at the State University of New York at New Paltz. This interview is based on his recently edited book The Torrid Zone: Caribbean Colonization and Cultural Interaction in the Long Seventeenth Century Caribbean (University of...
John Turner’s Forthcoming Book on Plymouth
George Mason University historian John Turner is a versatile historian of American religion. He has written books on 20th-century evangelicalism, 19th-century Mormonism, and is now writing a book on the Plymouth Colony. It is scheduled to be released in 2020,...
The Battle Over Pope Francis Historicized
I think it is pretty clear by now that many Catholics–mostly conservative Catholics–are not big fans of Pope Francis. Mark Silk, writing at his blog Spiritual Politics, connects the current criticism of Francis to the Neo-Jansenist challenge to papal authority...