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  • BOOK CLUB: Whose Story? Two Views of King Philip’s War

    Whose story predominates? Ever since its publication in 1682 as The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative - with its harrowing account of capture, flight and detention as well as the death of her child - has shaped the mainstream understanding of King Philip's War. In this view, cruel and savage Native people […]

  • Erasure: History, Memory and King Philip’s War

    Why don't we know about King Philip's War? Because, says Tricia Peone, historians from Increase Mather to Edward Everett wrote the histories Why don’t most of us know much, if anything, about King Phillip’s War? Tricia Peone, project director of the Congregational Library's New England's Hidden Histories project, looks at legacy and memory in the […]

  • A History of King Philip’s War

    Cumberland Public Library 1464 Diamond Hill Road, Cumberland, RI, United States

    Join the Cumberland Public Library for a special presentation on the history of King Philip's War with Marilyn Harris, a researcher and docent at Smith's Castle in North Kingstown.

  • What Really Happened at Turners Falls? The Story of a Massacre

    This monument to Captain William Turner sums up an old and perhaps familiar telling of history. We have a colonial hero, later slain in battle. Small but mighty colonial forces overcome the odds. Apparently passive "Indians" are taken by surprise. Nameless Native people are "destroyed." How accurate is this picture of history? Not very, according […]

  • The Long Legacy: The Cost and Continuance of Indigenous Resistance

    Join a panel of Indigenous speakers in asking: how do we reckon with the legacy of King Philip's War today? As the final event in our series Metacom’s Resistance, this Indigenous panel asks: how do we reckon with this history today? What is due to the people of the Eastern Woodlands? Join us at the main Boston […]