Past 17th Century Related Events
(Arranged chronologically)
September 21, 2025

King Philip’s War, September 1675 From Beers’ Ambush Through Bloody Brook
September 20, 2025

Historic New England: Great Road Day Arnold House Tour
September 14, 2025

King Philip’s War: The Angel of Hadley
September 4, 2025

New Haven Colony, 1638: The Puritan Experiment in Biblical Governance
September 4, 2025

New Amsterdam: ‘Tis Now Called New York
September 4, 2025

“Our Communion Day,” Illuminating the Legacy of Tribal Churches
August 28, 2025

America’s Birth: Colonies to Revolutionary War
August 24, 2025

Bristol Middle Passage Port Marker Project unveils a sculpture by Spencer Evans in Independence Park
August 21, 2025

King Philip’s War, August: A Great Siege and Another Ambush!
August 14, 2025

A new history of the Sakonnet Wampanoag People by Little Compton Historical Society Director Marjorie O’Toole
August 11, 2025

We Shall Remain: Episode1, After the Mayflower Directed by Chris Eyre
August 9, 2025

The Bloodiest War in American History: King Philip’s War
August 9, 2025

Historian Stan Svec describes the 1675 Battle at Bloody Brook in Deerfield, MA
August 5, 2025

Books for Virginia 1620: America’s First Public Library?
July 30, 2025

The Wedding Gift: The Oldest House on Nantucket
July 29, 2025

Wheeler’s Surprise: The Forgotten Battle
July 28, 2025

Metacomet’s Rock on the shore of Mount Hope Bay
July 26, 2025

New England’s Colonial Meetinghouses: A Little-Known Chapter of American History
July 25, 2025

Colonialism & John Smith: An Introduction to English and American Literature
July 25, 2025

History isn’t over; it lives at Plimoth Patuxet Museums
July 25, 2025

Lifelong Learning class visits early Rehoboth and then learns about the Sassamon murder trial
July 17, 2025

Analysis of 1880 Bicentennial poem by W. DeWolf Fulton reveals a sympathetic view of King Philip
July 12, 2025

The Murder That Ignited America’s Bloodiest Colonial War
July 11, 2025

Accord with Massasoit, 1621: Journey to Sowams
July 11, 2025

The Pequot War (1636-1638): New England’s First Colonial-Native Conflict
July 10, 2025

Burr’s Hill Summer Campers learn about the early history of Warren
July 2, 2025

The Controversial Major John Mason of the Mystic Massacre
June 28, 2025

How Pilgrims Baked Bread in a Colonial Kitchen
June 26, 2025

Warren Preservation Society Members learn about the Massasoit Spring
June 24, 2025

Two Deaths in 1662: The Beginning of the End
June 21, 2025

A Matter of Perspective on the Origins of King Philip’s War: A Conversation and Bus Tour
June 12, 2025

English and First Nations: Differences Most Basic
May 27, 2025

Puritan New England Plymouth & Massachusetts Bay with Crystal Moore
May 25, 2025

King Philip’s War: The English . . . They weren’t us!
May 22, 2025

A Tradition of Resistance: the Puritan Prequel with Frank Bremer
May 19, 2025

King Philip War 350th anniversary discussion with the East Providence Historical Society
May 19, 2025

The War in Your Backyard with David Brule
May 18, 2025

Jabez Howland House, c. 1667, Plymouth, MA: Pilgrims Spent Time Here!
May 7, 2025

King William’s War 1688-1697 with Professor Emerson “Tad”Baker
May 4, 2025

The Untold Story of Rhode Island: Rogues, Revolution & Religious Freedom
April 30, 2025

A Revolution before the Revolution: Boston in 1689
April 26, 2025

Puritans and Pirates: The Rise and Fall of an English Colony
April 23, 2025

Quakers in the History of King Philip’s War with Elizabeth Cazden
April 17, 2025

The world of Roger and Mary Williams
April 17, 2025

The First Nations of New England on the eve of King Philip’s War
April 15, 2025

King Philip’s War display at the Old Colony History Museum in Taunton, MA
April 7, 2025

Neolithic stone structures in Ireland and New England
April 7, 2025

The Expansive Reach of the Dutch Colonial Empire

April 6, 2025

First Nations Lifeways Across the Seasons
April 3, 2025

Roger Williams and his World, a history in documents

April 1, 2025

Native Americans of New England: History, Colonial Legacies and Survival

March 21, 2025

The Medical Renaissance in England c1500 to c1700

March 29, 2025

The English Civil War, 1642-1652, the battle that changed England forever
March 20, 2025

Places and Spaces in the Old Colony: Bay Road

March 17, 2025

Inclusive History: Defying Gender in Early New England

March 12, 2025

William Bradford & John Winthrop: Why these Englishmen left England

March 8, 2025

Hudson’s Bay, Canada’s Oldest Retail Chain, Nears Bankruptcy

March 7, 2025

Mayflower Pilgrims and the Reformation

March 6, 2025

Uncovering the fascinating history of New Amsterdam

March 5, 2025

The 1607 Jamestown Burial Ground Update

March 3, 2025


Indigenous land and colonial property in the Hudson Valley
March 1, 2025

Lifelong Learning Collaborative Course on King Philip’s War

February 28, 2025

Enslavement in the Puritan Village with Jaqne Sciacca

February 26, 2025

The awfull hand of God upon us: A minister’s role in King Philip’s War

February 19, 2025

History Lecture about North American colonial settlement with Dan Allosso

February 12, 2025

The Great Swamp Massacre: Narragansett vs. Puritans, 1675

February 12, 2025

Spanish Conquest, Metacom’s War & Bacon’s Rebellion with Roger Green

February 11, 2025

The Aucocisco, Native People of Casco By by David Farnham

February 8, 2025

King Philip’s War presentation at the Somerset Public Library

February 6, 2025

English Consolidation with Professor Dan Allosso

February 3, 2025

Roger Williams: New and Dangerous Opinions

January 29, 2025

America’s Colonial Wars: An Overview with Dr. John Maass

January 30, 2025

Misadventure On Assawompset, King Philip’s War

January 29, 2025

Signs, Stories and Unraveling Myths of Concord’s History

January 28, 2025

Roger Williams: Champion of Religious Freedom and Native Rights

January 25, 2025

The Dutch food that built New York

January 23, 2025

Community Engaged Archaeology in Sakonnet with Kevin Smith

January 22, 2025

Surviving in Colonial America, and the Continuous Class War

January 19, 2025

Encountering Ndakinna – Recovering Abenaki History in VT & NH

January 15, 2025

The oldest stone house in New England, 1639

January 11, 2025

The Puritan Funeral in New England

January 1, 2025

The Fence Post Rebellion of 17th Century Elizabethown, NJ

December 27, 2024

The Scottish Prisoners of 1650-51

December 25, 2025

The Skulking Way of War: Eastern Woodlands Martial Context

December 16, 2024

Native Americans in Southern New England with author Daniel Mandell

December 13, 2024

Squanto: A Native Odyssey with Dr. Andrew Lipman

December 11, 2024

The Quinnipiac: The First People of the Shoreline and Southern Connecticut

November 24, 2024

Native American Artifacts from the Alden First Site: A Reanalysis

November 24, 2024

Sudbury: The Birth of an American Town – Episode 3

November 23, 2024

Sowams story presented at the Pawtuxet Valley Preservation & Historical Society

November 22, 2024

Restoring the Narratives of Indigenous and Black New Englanders

November 21, 2024

“Jezebel”, Anne Hutchinson, becomes a model of rectitude

November 20, 2024

The Legacy of Robin Cassicinamon with Prof. Kevin McBride

November 18, 2024

Sovereignty in the Dawnland with Mack Scott

November 16, 2024

The Cursed Sect: Quakers in Portsmouth During the Colonial Period

November 15, 2024

Brown University returns Mt. Hope Land to the Pokanoket Tribe

November 14, 2024

Munsee Lenape Sovereignty and Survival

November 6, 2024

Sense of Pride tour tells 4th graders about the Indigenous history of Warren

October 29, 2024

Scottish prisoners taken to the Saugus Iron Works after the 1650 Battle of Dunbar

October 25, 2024

Did Native Americans really live in balance with Nature?

October 17, 2024

The history of King Philip’s War

October 9, 2024

An Indigenous “Old World:” An Exploration of Pre-Colonial North America

October 6, 2024

Bristol 1st Congregational Church hears a message about Sowams

October 4, 2024

History of the Anglo-Powhatan Wars, part of the American Indian wars

October 3, 2024

The history of the Beaver War, part of the American Indian Wars

September 30, 2024

What they left behind: The English politics the Puritans rejected

September 27, 2024

Oliver Cromwell, the English Civil War and his influence on colonial New England

September 25, 2024

John McNiff re-enacts Roger Williams at the Arnolds Mills Community House

September 21, 2024

Mishoon burning at the Little Compton Historical Society

September 20, 2024

Tobacco’s Role In Shaping Colonial America’s Economy And Society

September 18, 2024

Bristol Town Council votes to adopt a Land Acknowledgement

September 15, 2024

4th Annual Pokanoket Heritage Day in Warren, RI

September 12, 2024

Early Migrations into and out of New England

September 8, 2024

A visit to the Institute for American Indian Studies

August 27, 2024

Overview of 17th century Puritan New England

August 22, 2024

Sowams Project presented at the Meshanticut Cultural Placemaking Conference

August 16, 2024

Lepore’s The Name of War is reviewed by Donna Kerner

August 15, 2024

Rise of the Dominion of New England (1686-1688)

August 11, 2024

Feature Focus: Redemption Rock

August 10, 2024

Roger William’s early Providence belonged to Ousamequin

August 8, 2024

King Philip’s Road Trip with Under the Radar Van

August 2, 2024

A brief history of the Massachusetts Tribe

July 30, 2024

White Slaves of the New World: The Failed Popham Colony

July 26, 2024

The Silver Coinage of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

July 26, 2024

The root that ate Roger Williams

July 24, 2024

Boston: The Prequel with Neil Wright

July 21, 2024

The 17th Century History of Providence Island

July 20, 2024

A Visit to Margaret’s Rock with Keith Morton

July 14, 2024

Council on Indigenous Affairs holds an Intertribal Pow Wow

July 13, 2024

Street named for Pokanoket Chief Harry “Hawk” Edmonds

July 7, 2024

2024 Martin House opening day tour in Swansea

June 22, 2024

The Society of Jesus and “Jesuit” Rings in New England

June 20, 2024

The Enlightenment and the Birth of the Coffeehouse

June 19, 2024

All Aboard The Mayflower Ship with Eric Schatzsucher

June 19, 2024

Samuel de Champlain, founder of New France & Quebec City in 1608

June 18, 2024

History and Finding Relevance at the Peabody Essex Museum

June 16, 2024

Corn: Treasure of the Ameicas with Jon Townsend

June 15, 2024

King William’s War in1689 | The French attack the English Frontier

June 7, 2024

New Stories of Race and Place in Southern New England

June 2, 2024

Archaeology of Sowams at the Strawberry Festival

May 29, 2024

The Dutch in Upper Manhattan with Dr. Deborah Hamer

May 23, 2024

The History of the Pequot Tribe

May 18, 2024

History of Sowams presented on Museum Day

May 15, 2024

The Forgotten Path to Church State Separation in America’s Founding

May 12, 2024

Pokahantas – The woman behind the legend

May 9, 2024

American History Lesson #4: GED lessons with Mrs. Lynch

May 5, 2024

The History of the Powhatan Tribe

May 2, 2024

Religion and Reformation in Plymouth Colony

May 1, 2024
Sowams presentation to the Rehoboth Antiquarian Society
April 21, 2024

Hadley, Massachusetts, Frontier Settlement on the River

April 11, 2024

Clothing, textiles and dress accessories in Plymouth Colony

April 6, 2024

Tour of the Royal Pokanoket Burial Ground at Burr’s Hill Park

April 3, 2024

The Wampanoag IV: Kind Philip’s War (1675-76)

April 1, 2024

Monumental Mobility: The Memory Work of Massasoit

March 30, 2024

The History of the Mohawk Tribe

March 26 & 27, 2024

Sowams Project holds Community Conversations in Seekonk and Bristol

March 21, 2025

King Philip’s War with author Eric B. Schultz

March 21, 2024

Pocahontas: The American Indian Princess Who Risked Her Life

March 21, 2024

Creating a new National Heritage Area in Sowams

March 20, 2024

King Philip’s War at the Wayland Library with Eric Schultz

March 17, 2024

Indigenous Food Sovereignty within Colonial Land Transactions

March 17, 2024

Renewal of the Covenant Ceremony at Potumtuk

March 15, 2024

Anne Hutchinson: Religious pioneer

March 12, 2024

What actually happened in 1619: The origins of slavery in North America

March 11, 2024

Finding Ann Bradstreet

March 8, 2024

Archaeology in Connecticut with Nicholas Bellantoni

March 1, 2024

New York in the Age of Piracy

February 26, 2024

Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery

February 25, 2024

Mayflower Pilgrims 1606-1620

February 21, 2024

Gather Documentary shown by the Barrington Land Conservation Trust

February 21, 2024

Sowams is presented to Lifelong Learners in a Brown Bag session

February 7, 2024

Easy Money: New England Puritans and the Invention of modern currency

February 6, 2024

The Great Migration Study Project Continues

January 31, 2024

Ships, Shipwrecks and Medals in the 17th Century

January 28, 2024

Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Colonies (1642-1671)

January 24, 2024

A History of Boston with Author Daniel Dain

January 19, 2024

Plymouth Colony Architecture 1620-1690

January 1, 2024

The Complex Relationship Between British Colonists and Native Americans in Early America

December 27, 2023

The New World: How the Pilgrim Fathers Colonised America

December 25, 2023

Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of existence in New England

December 21, 2023

Native Voices – An Hour with Members of the Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe

November 30, 2023

Enslaved Christians: Black Church Member in the Era of Cotton Mather

November 27, 2023

Native American Heritage Celebration at Providence City Hall

November 23, 2023

America’s First Rager: The Story of Merrymount

November 20, 2023

Native American Heritage Month at East Providence City Hall

November 16, 2023

Indigenous Peoples in Portsmouth during the Colonial Period

November 15, 2023

Stolen Relations: Centuries of Native Enslavement in the Americas

November 14, 2023

The Vikings in North American: 40 Years Later with Kevin Smith

November 13, 2023

A conversation with Pokanoket Historian Strong Turtle

November 13, 2023

King’s Rock historic marker installation announced in Swansea

November 9, 2023

The Colonial Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Late 1600s

November 4, 2023

Partnership offers a tour of the Isaac Royal House and slave quarters

November 2, 2023

Responsibility and Repair: Legacies of Indigenous Enslavement at Harvard

November 1, 2023

The Pequot War and Indigenous Enslavement in New England

October 28, 2023

Pokanoket mural unveiling in East Providence, RI

October 25, 2023

Sickness & Evil in the New England Colonies, 1620-1788

October 21, 2023

Center for Indigenous Peoples Rights Annual Gathering 2023, Day Two

October 18, 2023

Built from Bondage: Slavery and the Colonization of New England, 1620-1700

October 17 & 18, 2023

Community Conversations provide public input for the Sowams Project

October 13, 2023

On Belongings, Archives, and Indigenizing Design

September 30, 2023

Pokanoket Tribe helps to Celebrate Seekonk

September 28, 2023

San Miguel School visits the Seat of Metacom

September 23, 2023

Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women Intertribal Pow Wow in Rehoboth

September 23, 2023

Learning to make corn husk dolls at the Carpenter Museum with Chelsea Johnston

September 16, 2023

A Murder in Wickford – 1670 presented at Smith’s Castle

September 9, 2023

Sowams Woods Walk with the Barrington Land Conservation Trust

August 30, 2023

The Story of Wampum Continues with Eric Johnson

August 27, 2023

Birth of an American Town: Sudbury, Massachusetts

August 25, 2023

Prosecutions for fornication in Plymouth Colony


Why English took more than 100 years to sail to America

August 18, 2023

Lifelong Learning Class visits multiple sites in the Sowams Heritage Area

August 12, 2023

Where have the Salem Witchcraft documents been since 1692?

August 9, 2023

Replica of Magellan’s ship docks in Bristol RI

August 6, 2023

3rd Annual Pokanoket Heritage Day at Burr’s Hill Park

July 28, 2023

Eastern Medicine Singers perform at the Newport Folk Festival

July 21, 2023

Early 17th century English history with Sherry Rankin

July 27, 2023

Other States of America History podcasts

July 14, 2023

A Most Pernicious Affair: Conflict Between Native Americans and the Dutch

July 14, 2023

Roger Williams presented by Cathy Hurst at the RI State House

July 12, 2023

Terror and Slaughter in New England: The Pequot War and the Making of Colonial New England

July 6, 2023

The restoration of tidal hydrology in Sowams with Wenley Ferguson

July 5, 2023

Beyond Reservation: The Hidden Histories of Indian New England

June 30, 2023

The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England

June 28, 2023

The Rediscovery of America with Dr. Ned Blackhawk

June 27, 2023

Landscapes of Indenture: Scottish Prisoners of War in 17th century New England

June 19, 2023

Pokanoket Tribe helps to celebrate Juneteenth holiday in Newport

June 17, 2023

A Walk to the Council Oak in Dighton

June 17, 2023

A Little War, A Little Genealogy with Eric Schultz

June 13, 2023

Bristol and the Pokanokets Welcome the Golden Rule Sailboat for Peace

June 10, 2023

Keith Morton leads a walk to Margaret’s Rock where Roger Williams sheltered

June 6, 2023

A video tour of the Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth, MA

June 6, 2023

Judges Cave near New Haven, CT reveals early colonial manhunt

June 5, 2023

Native Americans of New England with UMass Professor Christoph Strobel

June 3, 2023

Dream Big and Dream Out Loud with the Pocasset Tribe of MA & RI

June 1, 2023

Commonwealth Museum Gallery One Exhibit: 1630-1763

June 1, 2023

Commonwealth Museum: The Director’s Tour

May 24, 2023

History of Stonewalls in New England with Jennifer Robinson

May 22, 2023

Conserving Byfield’s Flag, the oldest in America

May 21, 2023

Fish Passage Community Parade at Blackstone Valley National Historical Park

May 16, 2023

Osamequin Nature Trail marker unveiled in Barrington

May 14, 2023

The Cavaliers & Puritans: The history behind British literature

May 13, 2023

Tour of the Royal Pokanoket Burial Ground at Burr’s Hill Park

May 13, 2023

The Pokanoket Tribe at Mt. Hope Farm’s Spring Fest

May 10, 2023

A Community Reading of William Apess’s Eulogy on Metacom

May 10, 2023

A Constitutional Culture: the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire

May 9, 2023

Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America

May 3, 2023

King Philip’s War and the place of violence in the Northeast

May 2, 2023

Greg Gerritt talks about the Moshassuck River in Providence

April 29, 2023

Coggeshall Farm Museum holds a Land Acknowledgement Ceremony

April 20, 2023

Walk to Osamequin Nature Preserve

April 11, 2023

Ashmolean Museum in 1683 Oxford

April 4, 2023

The Narragansett, Roger Williams and the Discord that created RI

March 31, 2023

After the Mayflower, A Struggling Colony Expands, 1621-1623

March 22, 2023

Massasoit Ousamequin & Edward Winslow: A reflection on 400 years

March 22, 2023

A History of the Sakonnet People with Marjorie O’Toole

March 20, 2023

Changing the Massachusttes seal and motto

March 12, 2023

Community Maple Sugar closing celebration at Osamequin Farm

March 9, 2023

Sowams presentation at the Warren Senior Center

March 6, 2023

Sowams Presentation to New Bedford Whaling Museum volunteers

Pokanokets participate in Middle Passage Marker site unveiling
February 22, 2023
The Battlefield Archaeology of the Pequot War (1636-1637)
Historical Perspectives from The Wigwam
February 21, 2023
Occupying Massachustts and the Norumbeka Project
February 17, 2023
Enslaved Native Americans in Bermuda
February 16, 2023
Narragansett Indians and Native American Life
February 11, 2023
Wampanoag Canoe Passage Trip in 2005
February 8, 2023
New Light on Common Mather
February 2, 2023
As we rise: Dressing in Plymouth Colony
January 27, 2023
The Massachusetts Sixpence of 1652
January 25, 2023
The History of the East Indian Company
January 23, 2023
Popham Colony: Planning, Attempt and Legacy podcast
January 20, 2023
Indigenous Weapons and Tactics of King Philip’s War
January 18, 2023
Parallel Universes with Lori Rogers-Stokes
January 14, 2023
The Pokanoket Tribe at the Providence Children’s Museum
December 30, 2022
Correcting my first King Philip’s War video
December 19, 2022
The Pokanoket Tribe at the Whiteknact Elementary School
December 19, 2022
Presentation of eagle feathers at the Audubon Society
December 18, 2022
Swansea’s celebration of the 200th anniversary of King Philip’s War
December 17, 2022
Indigenous Natick today with Tribal Historian Pam Ellis
December 15, 2022
Archaeology and Indigenous History of Dogtown
December 12, 2022
Barrington Land Trust leads winter walk through Sowams Woods
December 9, 2022
A tribute to Archaeologist James Deetz
December 6, 2022
King Philip’s War and Sudbury Fight
December 1, 2022
Squanto’s Journey to Patuxet, a Pokanoket Village
November 20, 2022
Rethinking Thanksgiving with David Silverman at St. Bart’s
November 17, 2022
Indigenous Peoples of Portsmouth During the Colonial Period
Connecticut’s great discoveries in archaeology
November 16, 2022
Native American Heritage Month program at the East Providence City Hall
November 15, 2022
Thanksgiving Myths and What They Don’t Tell Us
Forgotten Frontier: Maine & New Hampshire in the 17th Century
November 12, 2022
The Desperate Crossing of the Sparrow-Hawk
Nanepashemet’s People: The Native Inhabitants of Swampscott and Essex County
November 8, 2022
Beaver full moonrise at Mt. Hope Farm
November 5, 2022
The Pokanoket Tribe is invited to Alden House in Duxbury, MA
November 4, 2022
The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
November 1, 2022
American Indian special collection opens at the George Hail Library in Warren
October 30, 2022
Abram’s Rock Walk with Professor Paul Cote
October 30, 2022
The Dark Side of the Puritans: The Pequot War of 1637
October 24, 2022
Sowams presentation to the Somerset Historical Society
October 22, 2022
Professor Keith Morton leads a walk to Margaret’s Cave
October 20, 2022
A Place of Persistence: Eastern Pequot Reservation Archaeology
October 19, 2022
Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England with Jean O’Brien
October 16, 2022
Barrington Brickyard Walk shows evidence of 17th century work
October 15, 2022
Tour of the Somerset Historical Society Indian Room
October 8, 2022
Dispossession: Indigenous Land Loss in Plymouth County
October 3, 2022
The Power of Place in Indigenous Life
October 2, 2022
Barrington RI Slave History Medallion Installation Ceremony
October 2, 2022
Sowams historic marker dedicated at the Newman Congregational Church
October 1, 2022
Deerfield: Whose Story? A historiographic museum tour
September 30, 2022
Weeku from Mat to Bark in 13 Moons by Darius Coombs
September 25, 2022
New England American Indian Place Names
September 17, 2022
Ask Roger at the Captain Wilbur Kelly House
September 14, 2022
Native Natick in a Violent Century, 1650-1750
September 11, 2022
Pokanoket Tribe opens the 9/11 ceremony at the Warren Town Wharf
September 10, 2022
Honoring the Land at the Audubon Raptor Weekend
September 2, 2022
From Nonotuck to Northampton: Recovering Histories of Indigenous Persistence
August 28, 2022
Partnership of Historic Bostons visits the Sowams Heritage Area
August 27, 2022
Warren Land Trust offers a walk through the 1682 Haile Farm land in Warren
August 21, 2022
Native American Burial Ground found on Cape Cod
August 19, 2022
Time of Anarchy by Matthew Kruer
August 13, 2022
Eastern Medicine Singers perform at the East Providence Art Festival
August 12, 2022
Walking Mount Hope Farm: Spectacular bay views and Colonial and tribal history
August 7, 2022
2nd Annual Pokanoket Heritage Day celebrated in Warren, RI
July 29, 2022
Warren cider works is now named after Sowams, the original name of the town
July 29, 2022
William Bradford: The Man Who Helped Found America
July 28, 2022
Procter & Gamble volunteers spend a day of service in Sowams
July 26, 2022
Mayflower Descendants dedicate a bnch to the Massasoit Ousamequin
July 22, 2022
Brown, Willett, Myles and the earliest roots of Slavery
July 19, 2022
Pilgrims, Puritans, and the Founding of the New England Colonies
July 18, 2022
Visitors from West Virginia tour the Sowams Heritage Area
July 15, 2022
Early Pocasset history at Heritage State Park
July 12, 2022
A new reading of Mary Rowlandson’s captivity narrative
July 11, 2022
Burr’s Hill Park campers learn about the Massasoit and the Pokanokets
July 9, 2022
Pequot Tribe holds an Education Powwow at the Mashantucket Museum
July 8, 2022
National Parks Conservation Association staff member visits Sowams
June 26, 2022
Pokanoket Tribe celebrates Strawberry Moon Thanksgiving for the first time in two years
June 26, 2022
The Pen of Justice: William Apess and his Eulogyon King Philip
June 24, 2022
Warren 19th century author attempts to describe American Indian past
June 18, 2022
The Role of Climate Change in17th Century History
June 8, 2022
Reclaiming Indigenous Maritime Traditions and Sovereignty
June 4, 2022
Drs. Morton & Weed lead a walk to Margaret’s Cave
May 28, 2022
The Mayflower’s Island House and the story told in Southampton
May 28, 2022
Another Crossing exhibit in Plymouth, England
May 21, 2022
A Visit to the Leiden American Pilgrim Museum
May 19, 2022
Valentine Whitman House to be sold
May 19, 2022
Culture Bearer Series with Linda Coombs
May 12, 2022
Sunken Vasa ship reveals 17th century life in detail
May 10, 2022
Culture Bearer Series with James Kaagegaabaw Vukelich
May 7, 2022
Pokanoket Tribe at the Mt Hope Spring Fest
May 6, 2022
Reading Mary Williams at Roger Williams University
May 6, 2022
Early Warren marker installed at the Kickemuit Middle School
May 3, 2022
Exploring the Lives of Plymouth Colony Women
May 1, 2022
A taste of history with the Dorking Museum & Heritage Centre
May 1, 2022
Dr. Weed offers a tour of the Pokanoket Royal Burial Site
April 27, 2022
A Key into the Language of America with Lorén Spears
April 28, 2022
Reconsidering Slavery in 17th Century New Netherland
April 27, 2022
Native Providence: A Virtual Author Talk with Patricia Rubertone
April 13, 2022
Sowams presented at the Robbins Museum in Middleboro
April 10, 2022
Early Bristol marker placed at the 1st Congregational Church
April 7, 2022
Braiding Sweetgrass: with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer
April 6, 2022
East Providence passes Land Acknowledgement
April 1, 2022
King Philip’s War with author Michael Tougias
March 12, 2022
In Defense of Puritanism
March 6, 2022
Pokanoket Tribe participates in Osamequin Farm maple sugaring event
March 4, 2022
The Endless Fascination with the Salem Witch Trials
February 27, 2022
John Alden and the Long History of Plymouth Colony
February 27, 2022
Sowams Heritage Area presented at the Squantum Association
February 19, 2022
The Archaeology of Cape Cod National Seashore
February 12, 2022
Stimulating Beverages with Amanda Lange
February 10, 2022
Old Maps, New Pathways with Christine DeLucia
February 10, 2022
A “new London” on the Thames by CT State Historian Walter Woodward
February 1, 2022
Providence MLK event begins with Land Acknowledgement
January 27, 2022
Writing Indians Out of Existence with Jean O’Brien
January 20, 2022
Bounty film documents attempt at Native genocide in Maine
January 15, 2022
Cyrus Dallin Museum features Native American sculptures
December 22, 2021
Away from Home exhibit at URI documents Indian boarding schools
December 19, 2021
Live like in the 17th century: Tales from the Green Valley
December 12, 2021
The History of Sowams at the East Providence Historical Society
A Deep Presence, 13,000 years of Native American History with Robert Goodby
December 9, 2021
Urbana Archipelago: An Environmental History of the Boston Harbor Islands
November 29, 2021
3rd Annual Native American Heritage Month at Providence City Hall
November 28, 2021
Jim Foster interviews Nathaniel Philbrick about his book Mayflower
November 27, 2021
Pokanoket women show how to make a corn husk doll
November 21, 2021
Native American Voices and Culture at the Mixed Magic Theatre
November 19, 2021
Surviving the Great Dying of 1616-1619
November 19, 2021
David Silverman – This Land is Their Land at Boston Public Library
November 18, 2021
The Trial, Execution, and Exoneration of Rebecca Nurse
November 17, 2021
Pits, posts and palisades: The Archaeology of 17th century Plymouth Colony
November 15, 2021
Native American Heritage Month celebrated in East Providence
November 14, 2021
Sowams & the Pokanokets at the Touisset Clubhouse
November 13, 2021
Roger Williams University dedicates a room to the Pokanoket Tribe
November 11, 2021
The Home of the Mayflower in Essex, England
November 11, 2021
Michael Tougias on the Mayflower to King Philip’s War
November 10, 2021
Native and English Spirituality Compared in Bosworth Lecture
November 7, 2021
400th Anniversary of Thanksgiving at Mt. Hope Farm
November 7, 2021
Panel discusses what really happened at the first Thanksgiving
November 6, 2021
Keith Morton leads a walk to Margaret’s Rock & Cave
November 2, 2021
Census Making, and Indian Erasure in New England with Jason Mancini
October 24, 2021
Eastern Medicine Singers at the Warren, RI Walkabout
October 22, 2021
Uncomfortable Truth: Indigenous communities and law in New England
October 16, 2021
What hath Roger wrought with Robert A. Geake
October 15, 2021
Radical, Rebels and Rejects
October 12, 2021
The Beads that Bought Manhattan at the Brown Arts Institute
October 10, 2021
Dighton Rock may have Indigenous origins
October 7, 2021
Connecticut’s Paleo-Indian Sites
October 6, 2021
The Origins of the Boston Common
October 4, 2021
Warren artists choose Sowams themes for their paintings
September 29, 2021
Harwich, home of Captain Jones where the Mayflower was built
September 27, 2021
Gainsborough, site of the Separatists’ escape to Leiden
September 27, 2021
Bassetlaw Museum opens Pilgrims’Gallery in Retford,
September 27, 2021
Scrooby noted as the home of Separatist William Brewster
September 27, 2021
Austerfield, England celebrates Pilgrim Father William Bradford
September 21-25, 2021
Wampanoags visit the Bassetlaw Museum in Retford, England
September 20, 2021
Puritan Faultlines: House v. Meeting House in Puritan New England
September 20, 2021
Bodies Politic: Town Founding and the Common Good
September 19, 2021
Dr. Weed talks about the 1621 treaty at Speakers’ Corner in London
September 15, 2021
British Museum exhibit excludes mention of the Pokanokets
September 14, 2021
Puritan social gospel and the City on a Hill with Francis Bremmer
September 13, 2021
Southern New England Tribes and sacred sites
September 10, 2021
Connecticut Native American Communities Past and Present
September 8. 2021
National Museum of the American Indian holds Sowams artifacts on-line
September 7, 2021
Upending 1620: Where Do We Begin? exhibit
September 1, 2021
Connie Baxter Marlow & Andrew Cameron Bailey visit Sowams
August 27, 2021
Conservation work planned at Clemence-Irons House
August 14, 2021
Ben Crystal interprets Roger Williams
August 11, 2021
Ruth Major paintings on display at the Bristol Library
August 8, 2021
Samoset, the Wawenock from Pemaquid
August 8, 2021
Pokanoket Heritage Day at Burr’s Hill Park in Warren
August 6, 2021
Pokanoket History at Burr’s Hill Park Summer Camp
July 29, 2021
Dutch New York with Historian Barry Lewis
July 24, 2021
Keith Morton leads a walk to Margaret’s Cave
July 22, 2021
A Look-back at Spring, 1621 with Richard Pickering
July 22, 2021
The Great Migration to New England
July 19, 2021
Pokanoket Land Acknowledgement hits the papers
July 14, 2021
Hansken, Rembrandt’s Elephant
July 10, 2021
Sowams Heritage Area featured on History Camp America
July 4, 2021
Wetu on display at the Baker Street Playground
July 3, 2021
400th Anniversary of Winslow’s visit to Ousamequin commemorated in Warren
July 1, 2021
Founding Fish: Maine’s 17th Century Cod Fishing Industry
June 27, 2021
Author Nathaniel Philbrick visits the Massasoit’s home town
June 25, 2021
Roger Williams Family Association tours the RI State House
June 24, 2021
Pokanoket Sagamore relates tribal history at Ink Fish Bookstore
June 19, 2021
RI Slave History Medallions Installation at Linden Place
June 18, 2021
Lane Sparkman displays 17th century RI documents
June 17, 2021
Historic marker unveiled at Mount Hope Farm in Bristol
June 17, 2021
Dave Weed describes the history of Burr’s Hill Park
June 16, 2021
Above her sex; The problem of public women
June 11, 2021
A Look Back at Winter 1621
June 10, 2021
The Roger Williams Study Group at Smith’s Castle
June 5, 2021
Three sisters garden planted at Hunt’s Mills
June 3, 2021
Live like in the 17th century: Tales from the Green Valley
June 3, 2021
Indigenizing Historical Narratives with Chris Newell
May 27, 2021
Boston by Map with the Leventhal Center
May 23, 2021
Sagamore Winds of Thunder receives an honorary degree from RWU
May 19, 2021
A 17th Century Life: The Diary of Ralph Josselin
May 18, 2022
Pequod Museum reopens after 14-month Covid closure
May 13, 2021
Chemistry in 17th Century New England
May 2, 2021
Electric Box painting of Ousamequin by Jess Brown
April 30, 2021
Ceremonial stone walk in the Bioreserve with Carl Ferreira
April 28, 2021
Author Conversations with Patricia Rubertone
April 21, 2021
Sowams painting on display in Warren bookstore
April 18, 2021
The Rule to Walk by with Roxanne Reddington-Wilde
April 17, 2021
5th International Indigenous Peoples Cultural Conference
April 14, 2021
Warren Land Conservation Trust names Sowams Meadows Preserve
April 14, 2021
Jean O’Brian: Massasoit and Memory
April 14, 2021
Terror to the Wicked with author Tobey Pearl
April 13, 2021
King Philip’s War and the Character of Colonial America
April 8, 2021
Living Godly Lives: A Look at Puritan Morality
April 5, 2021
Peregrine White: 1st Englishman Born in New England
March 29, 2021
Writing Mary Williams Back into the Historical Record
March 25, 2021
The World of Plymouth Plantation with Carla Gardina Pestana
March 24, 2021
This land is a Living Witness with Sachem Lance Young
March 20, 2021
The Early History of North Westport with Al Lees III
March 18, 2021
Roger Williams’ new and dangerous ideas with Ranger John McNiff
March 11, 2021
A Storm of Witchcraft with author Emerson Baker
March 2, 2021
How an alliance was formed and broken
February 17, 2021
Watchemoket Square plans announced in East Providence
February 10, 2021
Pokanokets and Pilgrims presentation at Hamilton House
February 4, 2021
The Wampanoag and the Arrival of the Pilgrims with Linda Coombs
February 4, 2021
Witchcraft in the 17th Century by Dr. Carrington-Farmer
January 29, 2021
Illness and the Making of Early New England
January 14, 2021
Settling the Good Land – Governance and Promotion in John Winthrop’s New England
January 12, 2021
Survival: Boston 1630-1635
January 10, 2021
King Philip’s War with National Park Ranger John McNiff
December 15, 2020
Of Plimoth Plantation: New Facsimile Edition Virtual Launch
December 14, 2020
John G. Turner discusses early slavery in Sowams
December 5, 2020
Plymouth Antiquarian Society offers a virtual tour Plymouth holidays
November 26, 2020
National Day of Mourning remembered 50 years later
November 24, 2020
Mayor Elorza hosts the 2nd Annual Native American Heritage Month Celebration
November 24, 2020
What you learned about the ‘first Thanksgiving’ isn’t true
November 19, 2020
The American Experience presents “The Pilgrims”, again
November 19, 2020
Slavery and the Slave Trade in Rhode Island
November 19, 2019
David J. Silverman: “This Land is Their Land” 2019 presentation in Boston
November 18, 2020
The Pilgrims, the Wampanoag, and Reciprocity with Jenny Hale Pulsipher
November 17, 2020
John G. Turner talks about the Pilgrims 400 years later
November 15, 2020
Archaeology Along the Palmer River in Rehoboth with Archaeologist Erin Flynn
November 12, 2020
Signatures of Rhode Island’s Indigenous Leaders
November 12, 2020
Nathaniel Philbrick discusses “Mayflower” at the Boston Public Library
November 2, 2020
National Geographic History magazine features Sowams
October 28, 2020
The Tribes and their relations with the Mass Bay Colony
October 28, 2020
Bill Kirkpatrick tours the Johannis Farm in Sowams
October 27, 2020
Watchemoket Square Week includes a Sowams presentation
October 22, 2020
Roger Williams University class explores the Native American experience
October 21, 2020
Massasoit’s Meanings: Shifting Histories of Settler-Colonialism
October 20, 2020
Telling 17th Century New England Stories Through the Archives
October 19, 2020
City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism
October 18, 2020
Roger Williams Family Association gathers at Margaret’s Rock
October 14, 2020
Wampanoag Life Before the Pilgrims
October 12, 2020
Indigenous in Rhode Island: Reflections on Courage and Community
October 12, 2020
We are all on Native land: A conversation about Land Acknowledgements
October 6, 2020
The Great Swamp Fight: The Bloodiest Day of King Philip’s War
September 24, 2020
Roger Williams and the Architecture of Religious Freedom
September 20, 2020
Turbulent times in early Rehoboth: Obadiah Holmes and his Baptist Friends
September 17, 2020
First Day of Issue for new “Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor” Forever stamp
September 16, 2020
Decolonizing Sowams: Resisting the Erasure of Indigenous Lives in the East Bay of RI
September 15, 2020
The Untold Story of the Sowams Heritage Area at the Carpenter Museum
September 3, 2020
A visit to the historic Winslow House in Marshfield, MA with Regina Porter
September 3, 2020
Penelope Winslow: Plymouth Colony First Lady with Michelle Marchetti Coughlin
September 1, 2020
Nevertheless, She Persisted: Exploring 17th-Century Women for a 21st-Century World
August 25, 2020
RWU student create informative booklet
August 20, 2020
The Northern Colonies in the 17th Century
August 16, 2020
Exploring the Narrative of the Swansea Baptists with Rev. Charles Hartman
August 13, 2020
Indigenizing the Curriculum at Roger Williams University
August 13, 2020
A virtual tour of 17th century Taunton at the Old Colony Museum
August 10, 2020
Professor Creviston on the New England Colonies
August 9, 2020
Sagamore Winds of Thunder opens anti-racism rally in Barrington
August 5, 2020
Slavery and Freedom in Little Compton
August 5, 2020
Mayflower II visits New Bedford on the way to Plymouth
August 4, 2020
Community Garden with Three Sisters Plot under construction at Hunts Mills
July 25, 2020
17th Century Meetup group explores Anawan Rock with Naturalist Don Doucette
July 25, 2020
Keith Morton leads a group including three Pokanokets to Margaret’s Cave
July 19, 2020
Pokanokets build a portable wetu at Mt. Hope Farm
July 16, 2020
Rally to change the Massachusetts flag and seal
June 17, 2020
Authors Blee and O’Brien talk about Monumental Mobility today
June 11, 2020
Bradford and Plymouth: The View from 400 Years
June 9, 2020
Pokanoket Tribe gathers at new Burr’s Hill historic marker
July 9, 2020
Celebrate the 400th Anniversary of the Mayflower
June 5, 2020
Laid Waste! The Culture of Exploitation in Early America
May 19, 2020
Little Compton’s 17th Century Women with Marjory O’Toole
April 8, 2020
Living Godly Lives: A Look at Puritan Morality
April 3, 2020
Dr. Weed talks about the Sowams Project with RWU professor Dr. Jeremy M. Campbell
March 13, 2020
Roger Williams’ Early Life in London, England
March 12
British Museum display fails to include the story of Sowams
March 4, 2020
Lorén Spears at the RI State Library speaks about Roger Williams’ A Key Into the Language of America
February 21, 2020
Dr. Weed presents Pokanokets and Pilgrims: Compromise & Conflict in the 17th Century
February 13, 2020
Author Philippa Gregory visits Potumtuk with the Pokanoket Sagamore and Sachem
January 31, 2020
Warrior Women Panel Discussion at Providence College
January 26, 2020
State archaeologist Timothy Ives talks about stone heaping practices of New England farmers
January 25, 2020
Roger Williams celebrated as part of traveling exhibit’s stop at local library
January 15. 2020
Revitalization of Watchemoket Square plans presented at Tockwotton on the Waterfront
December 17, 2019
17th Century Sowams Presented at the Rehoboth History Club
December 12, 2019
Mayflower Author Nathaniel Philbrick meets the Pokanoket Sagamore Po Wauipi Neimpaug
December 11, 2019
Roger Williams in England at the Peace Dale Museum of Art and Culture
November 21, 2019
Four women tour three indigenous locations
November 20, 2019
City of East Providence celebrates Native American Heritage Month
November 14, 2019
Dr. Weed teaches about Sowams at the Barrington Learning Center
November 13, 2019
Future of Barrington Nockum Hill Lot 3A discussed at public forum
November 9, 2019
Hike the Mowry Path that Metacom, Weetamoe and their followers took to the Taunton River
November 8, 2019
‘Memory Lands’ a lecture on King Philip’s War by Christine DeLucia
November 5, 2019
DCR archaeologist describes the first people of Fall River to seniors
November 3, 2019
Paul Cote leads family members and Meetup group to Abram’s Rock in Swansea
November 1 & 2, 2019
NEARA Conference explores early boundaries and indigenous migration patterns
October 28, 2019
National Park Ranger John McNiff Brings the 17th Century to Life
October 26, 2019
17th century presentations at the New England Historical Association Conference
October 23, 2019
Dave Norton tells the John and Elizabeth Howland Pilgrim story
October 18, 2019
The Lost Colony of Roanoke Island with Scott Dawson and Mark Horton
October 14, 2019
Honoring Indigenous People at the Providence Honk Festival
October 12, 2019
Neutaconkanut Hill Festival hosts guided hikes and Native storytelling and song
October 10, 2019
Native and Colonial History presentated at the Audubon Education Center in Bristol
October 9, 2019
Archaeologist Erin Flynn talks about the early history of Swansea, MA
October 7, 2019
Sowams Project presented at the Massasoit Historical Association in Warren
October 5, 2019
Pokanokets and Pilgrims presentation at Watchemoket Square Day in East Providence
October 2, 2019
Sowams Project presented at Heritage State Park in Fall River
October 1, 2019
Winslow Point at Peace Haven where Winslow, Metacom and Weetamoe likely crossed the Taunton River
September 28, 2019
Big Drum Powwow wraps up first day at Roger Williams Memorial
September 28, 2019
Day-long “Roger Was Here” Seminar held at Smith’s Castle
September 26, 2019
Chief Quaiapen presented by Ray Two Hawks Watson at RWU
September 25, 2019
Sowams Heritage Area Project presented to the Bristol Rotary Club
September 22, 2019
Meetup Group tour of Martin House and Sachem’s Knoll
September 20, 2019
Tour of 17th century Burial Hill in Plymouth, MA
September 18, 2019
Author Ed Lodi talks about Benjamin Church in the King William’s War
September 14, 2019
Land acknowledgement mural depicts the tribes of Mount Hope in Providence
August 25, 2019
Winds of Thunder presents at Mt. Hope Meetup Event
August 16, 2019
Sturgeon Full Moon Walk at Mount Hope Farm
August 13, 2019
Sowams article published in Prime Times free magazine
August 10, 2019
Keith Morton leads a group to Margaret’s Rock
August 9, 2019
Burr’s Hill talk at the Massasoit Memorial in Warren
August 4, 2019
Walk of the Pnieses Ceremony at Mt. Hope in Bristol, RI
August 3, 2019
Sowams Heritage Area group explores Neutaconkanut Hill in Providence
July 28, 2019
17th Century MeetUp group visits Hipses Rock and the Ochee Spring Soapstone Quarry
July 27, 2019
History Camp Pioneer Valley hears the untold story of the Massasoit
July 25, 2019
Christine DeLucia talks about place, heritage & caretaking
July 22, 2019
The Pokanoket Tribe at Camp Wetu, Mt. Hope Farm, Bristol, RI
July 22, 2019
Pokanoket leather workshop at Mt. Hope Farm’s Camp Wetu
July 9, 2019
Dr. Weed presents the Sowams Heritage Area to residents of North Farm in Bristol, RI
June 23, 2019
Pokanoket Strawberry Moon Thanksgiving at Mt. Hope Farm
June 18, 2019
80th Anniversary Celebration of Prospect Terrace where Roger Williams was reburied
June 17, 2019
Buddhist Peace Walk to Mt. Hope and the Massasoit Memorial at Burr’s Hill Park
June 16, 2019
National Park Service Ranger John McNiff presents Roger Williams at a 17th century MeetUp
June 15, 2019
The Pokanoket Tribe at the Audubon Education Center in Bristol, RI
June 12, 2019
The Pokanoket Tribe at the Rockwell Elementary School in Bristol, RI
June 11, 2019
Indian Slavery presentation by Linford Fisher at Smith’s Castle
June 11, 2019
The Sowams Heritage Area Project at the East Providence Chamber of Commerce
June 5, 2019
The Pokanoket Tribe at the George R Martin Elementary School in Seekonk, MA
May 28, 2019
Sowams presentation at the Warren-Barrington Rotary Club
May 19, 2019
17th Century MeetUp Group Tour of Newport
May 17, 2019
The Pokanoket Tribe at the Providence Children’s Museum
April 21, 2019
“Our” Story: 400 Years of Wampanoag History Exhibit
April 20, 2019
18th Annual Spring Thaw Powwow at Brown University
April 19, 2019
The Pokanoket Tribe performs at the Bristol Library
April 14, 2019
The 17th Century RI MeetUp Group visits East Providence
April 12, 2019
The Pokanoket Tribe visits the ENRICHri Home Schoolers
April 11, 2019
Scholars see 17th century documents at the John Carter Brown Library
April 11, 2019
Authors Christine DeLucia and Lisa Brooks speak at Brown University
March 21, 2019
Barrington Interfaith Partners learn the history and traditions of the Pokanoket Tribe
March 19, 2019
The Pokanoket Tribe visits the George Hail Library in Warren
March 18, 2019
Providence Rotarians hear about the Sowams Heritage Area Project
March 17, 2019
Pokanoket Tribe renews the Covenant at Potumtuk
March 16, 2019
Sowams Heritage Area presented at Boston History Camp
March 15, 2019
Eliot Bible on display at the Natick Historical Society
March 15, 2019
The Pokanoket Tribe visits the Palmer Elementary School in Rehoboth
March 7, 2019
Portsmouth 1638 Founding Ceremony
January 26, 2019
George Hail Library presentation on the Sowams Heritage Area
November 11, 2018
Visit to Massasoit’s Home Town, Warren, RI
November 4, 2018
375th Anniversary lecture at the Newman Congregational Church, East Providence
October 23, 2018
Swansea Historical Society hears Sowams presentation
October 22, 2018
Sowams Heritage Area presented at Tockwotton
October 21, 2018
Walk to Margaret’s Cave with God, War and Providence author James Warren
October 17, 2018
Burial Grounds Of Plymouth Colony with Stephen O’Neill
September 27, 2018
Dr. Weed presents Sowams at a Bristol Historical & Preservation Society program
September 9, 2018
Sowams Heritage Area Project launch at Hunts Mill
August 26, 2018
17th Century MeetUp at the Martin House in Swansea
August 11, 2018
Coastal Cove walk with Ernie Germani
August 4, 2018
Walk to Margaret’s Cave with Providence College Professor Keith Morton
July 28, 2018
17th Century RI tour of the Clemence-Irons and Arnold houses
June 24, 2018
First 17th Century RI MeetUp at the Roger Williams Memorial
June 14, 2018
Warren Preservation Society presentation on Sowams
May 12, 2018
Celebrating Rehoboth Through Genealogy
May 1, 2018
Helen Hersh Tjader presents “Sowams, the Untold Story” at the East Providence Library
April 9, 2018
Author Julie Fisher shows students at Roger Williams University ethnographic writing
April 8, 2018
Ernie Germani leads a 2nd Sunday Walk at Hunts Mills

Friendship, Enslavement, and Persistence with Dr. Charlotte Carrington-Farmer