Is King Philip’s War really part of the past? Four Indigenous speakers tell us that it’s still deeply present. People who are not Indigenous often think of Metacom’s Resistance – […]
One of the lesser-known aspects of the War for New England (King Philip’s War) was the intentional campaign to enslave Native peoples. The war unleashed multiple attempts to capture and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]