出版社：Westfield State College * Institute for Massachusetts Studies
摘要：Introduction: In this article, historian Ethan A. Schmidt reviews over fifty years of changing interpretations and scholarship on Puritan and Native American history in New England. This historiographical perspective (referring to the history of the writing of history) offers readers a critical evaluation of nearly two dozen major historians and their works, from Alden Vaughan's New England Frontier: Puritans and Indians, 1620-1675 (first edition published in 1965) to Kathleen Bragdon's two-volume history of coastal Algonquians, Native People of Southern New England, 1650-1775 (second volume published in 2009). Along the way he reviews shifting interpretations of the Puritans, the Pequot War (1637), King Philip's War (1676), and the Salem Witch Trials (1692).
