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WE begin this joint Forum by sounding a call and marking that call's history. In this introduction, published in both Early American Literature and the William and Mary Quarterly, we [...]

The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic JOHN DEMOS New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014 337 pp. In his latest work, [...]

Befare the West Was West: Critical Essays on Pre-1800 Literature of the American Frontiers Edited by AMY T. HAMILTON and TOM J. HILLARD Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014 357 [...]

Domingos Alvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World JAMES H. SWEET Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011 300 pp. Materials and Medicine: Trade, Conquest, [...]

In June 1721, just after a ship from the West Indies had arrived in Boston, smallpox broke out among several Africans on board. Though city officials instituted a quarantine, the [...]

During certain seasons of the year, all tropical climates are subject to epidemics of a most destructive nature. The inhabitants of New Orleans look with as much certainty for the [...]

This interview highlights the work of Paula Peters, a Wampanoag historian and journalist, to center Wampanoag timelines and homelands in stories of Plymouth Colony. This work revises the current emphasis, among scholars, publishers, and public-facing institutions, on 1620 and on Plymouth Colony as origins points in regional and national histories. Several years before the 2020 commemorations of the Plymouth colonists' settlement at Patuxet, on Wampanoag homelands, Peters and other Wampanoag tribal members created a traveling exhibit through which they are telling Wampanoag histories. The exhibit begins not in 1620 but in 1614, when colonists captured Wampanoag men and took them to England, and it emphasizes Wampanoag peoples' diplomacy with Plymouth settlers and their persistence in the present. The interview discusses the long trajectory of Wampanoag peoples' public-facing scholarship, with the goal of making clear its significance for telling stories about early America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]