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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
We’re told the Puritans came for religious freedom, but the truth is they were the most brutal persecutors in American history. Here is how one group of ‘quiet’ rebels finally “broke their power.” Then, sixteen years later, something impossible happened. What we discovered in the colonial records reveals uncomfortable truths about how tolerance really emerges […]
(Photo, left) Dr. Weed requests a vote on the following resolution on November 12, 2025: Whereas, The Town of Warren is one of nine Massachusetts and Rhode Island municipalities on the northeastern shore of Narragansett Bay that comprise Sowams, the ancestral homeland of the Massasoit Ousamequin who welcomed the Pilgrims in 1621 and forged a […]
The Roger Williams University Co-Lab presented Don Strong Turtle Brown, Jr. (Pokanoket Tribal Historian) and Richard Pickering (Deputy Executive Director & Senior Historian, Plimoth Patuxet Museums) on November 5, 2025. The two presenters explored the historical origins of Thanksgiving, challenging colonial narratives, and reflecting on how public memory shapes our understanding of the holiday today. […]
In a bitter winter in the early 17th century, an invisible storm swept across the East Coast of what would become the United States — not with swords and guns, but with something far more terrifying: epidemic disease. Between 1616 and 1619, an unknown epidemic devastated countless Indigenous communities, erasing up to 90% of their […]
In May, 2025, the Pokanoket Tribe added a link on their official website to a video produced by Tribe Member Winter Hawk that describes the history of Potumtuk, or The Lookout, on their historic land in Bristol, RI, to which they recently regained access after 340 years. Click here for the five-minute video. Quoting from the video, “This 255 acre property sits […]
STATE HOUSE – The Senate honored members of the Pokanoket Tribe at the State House Wednesday, approving a resolution sponsored by Sen. Linda L. Ujifusa (Dist. 11, Portsmouth and Bristol) that honors the tribe’s ancestors and living descendants. The resolution commits to promoting and protecting their cultural heritage, sacred lands and rightful place in Rhode […]
Providence-based Quaker historian Elizabeth Cazden spoke about the role of Quakers in the history of King Philip’s War at the Rogers Public Library in Bristol, RI, on April 23, 2025. Cazden is a direct descendant of John Borden, one of the participants in the meeting that was held between Rhode Island Deputy Governor John Easton […]