Join the Coventry 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. To many today, the names "Metacom," "Narragansett," and "The Great Swamp" are merely markers on highway signs or names on a map. But in 1675, they […]

In 1675, war broke out in Rhode Island when Native people fired on a handful of colonists, killing a young English man. Or so goes the story. If you're one of the relatively few people in the US who have heard of King Phillip's War, this is probably all you know. Or perhaps your Massachusetts […]

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 – more commonly known as King Philip’s War – if they know of it - as part of a distant past. If we have read children’s […]