
Historian Christine DeLucia received the 2019 Gomes Prize for “Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast.” and was invited to speak at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston on February 3, 2020. Click here for the 57-minute video of the presentation and her conversation with Dr. Rae Gould. Associate Director of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Program at Brown University..

The Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize is given to the best nonfiction work on the history of Massachusetts published during the preceding year. The annual award honors the memory of the Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes, a Harvard scholar and a respected and beloved Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society for almost thirty-five years.

(Below) DeLucia joins Dr. Rae Gould in a conversation about the war’s effects on the everyday lives and collective mentalities of the region’s diverse Native and Euro-American communities over the course of several centuries, focusing on persistent struggles over land and water, sovereignty, resistance, cultural memory, and intercultural interactions
