July 2026

The impacts of conquest and colonization, 1607 - 1754

In this video, take a look at some of the impacts of conquest and colonization on Europe and on the Native peoples in the Americas and on enslaved Africans. A number of topics in this video include the Transatlantic Slave Trade, interactions between Native Americans and Europeans, and slavery in the British colonies. Click here […]

King Philip’s War An American Tragedy

What was the most lethal war ever waged on American soil per capita? In this archived educational presentation from January 2021, American Heritage Partners President Jonathan “Jay” Dickey explores King Philip’s War (1675–1676), a devastating and often overlooked conflict that forever transformed early New England. Click here for a 36-minute video of his presentation posted […]

Pits, Posts, and Palisades: Archaeology of the Plymouth Colony

In May and June of 2019 and 2021, a field school from the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Massachusetts Boston, in partnership with Plimoth Patuxet Museums (formerly Plimoth Plantation) and the Town of Plymouth, undertook their final two seasons of work as part of Project 400: The Plymouth Colony Archaeological Survey. […]