Pequot War

Seventeenth-century maps and conflicts in colonial New England.

Major new books about the peoples who lived in North America for millennia before the arrival of Europeans are reshaping the history of the continent.

"History​ is written by the victors, but diligent and continual silencing is required to maintain its claims on the present and future."

Europeans didn’t just displace Native Americans — they enslaved them, on a scale historians are only beginning to fathom.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

American artists were instrumental in propagating the false narrative of Thanksgiving, a deliberate erasure of violence against Indigenous peoples.

How best to tell the story of oppressed peoples? By chronicling the hardships they’ve faced? Or by highlighting their triumphs over adversity?

The Puritans had little tolerance for those who didn't conform to their vision of the world.

Why Thomas Morton seems to have taken particular delight in driving the Pilgrims and Puritans out of their minds.

Power, plague and Christianity were closely intertwined in 17th-century New England.

Descendants of the Pilgrims have highlighted their ancestors’ role in the country’s founding. But their sanitized version of events is only now starting to be told in full.

Indigenous scholars have long contested the “virgin-soil epidemics” thesis. Today, it is clear that the disease thesis simply doesn’t hold up.

Thanksgiving is a holiday about food – but it is more specifically a holiday about food’s absence.

A Native student explains why the holiday is a painful reminder of a whitewashed past.

Making history more appealing to the public may come at a cost.

A response to claims that the First Thanksgiving was not a "thanksgiving" as the Pilgrims understood it.