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My Turn: Being a revisionist isn’t a bad thing
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Published: 1/16/2018 9:00:10 AM
As a U.S. historian who has participated in the public discussion of the current research project on the battle/massacre at the Great Falls in 1676, and as someone who briefly taught Native American history at the college level, l am certainly interested in any new perspectives on King Philips War. Thus, I read with interest Gary Sanderson’s discussion of two new books on the war, one by Amherst College historian Lisa Brooks, and the other by Christine M. Delucia of Mount Holyoke.
The war has been, and will continue to be, a subject of debate among historians. The battlefield project has certainly struggled to find good primary sources on the war that reflect the perspective of Native Americans. Sanderson argues that these new books do just that, which would be a good thing.