On Sunday, Oct 17, 2021 the Wayland Library, Wayland Historical Society and First Parish in Wayland co-hosted a panel discussion on The Public History of King Philip’s War.
You can find a recording of the event here: https://youtu.be/YbugEfHE4jM
Below we’ve listed several resources for more information on the topics discussed.
Books:
On King Philip’s War
- Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast by Christine DeLucia, 2018
- Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War by Lisa Brooks, 2018
- Digital Companion Site: Our Beloved Kin: Remapping a New History of King Philip’s War
On Wayland/Sudbury history:
- Historical markers erected by Massachusetts Bay Colony by the Special Commission on the Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Samuel Eliot Morison, 1930
- Wayland A-Z: A Dictionary of Then and Now by Evelyn Wolfson and Dick Hoyt, 2004
- The Annals of Sudbury, Wayland and Maynard, Middlesex County, Massachusetts by Alfred Sereno Hudson, 1891
- The History of Sudbury, Massachusetts. 1638-1889 by Alfred Sereno Hudson, 1889
- Wayland Historical Tours, Barbara Robinson, Ed. 2013
- The Puritan Village Evolves: A History of Wayland, Massachusetts by Helen Fitch Emery, 1981
Articles/Links
- Coombs, L. (2021). [Review of This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving, by D. Silverman]. Native American and Indigenous Studies, 8(2), 158–160. (Email info@waylandlibrary.org for help accessing this article)
- From English to Algonquian https://www.americanantiquarian.org/EnglishtoAlgonquian/
- This exhibition explores the contributions of those who labored in translating and printing works in the Algonquian family of native languages. The people, organizations, and publications presented here offer an opportunity to reexamine the historical narrative surrounding the creation of the few surviving seventeenth-century documents that capture the language of an entire cultural group.
- “King Philip’s War and the Cultural Landscape of Boston” by Marty Blatt, Sept 20, 2018 https://masshumanities.org/ph_king-philips-war-and-the-cultural-landscape-of-boston/
- “Marked Territory: Rethinking Massachusetts’ Roadside Histories” by Emma Boast, January 15, 2021 https://www.mapc.org/planning101/marked-territory-rethinking-massachusetts-historical-markers/
- “The “Indianized” Landscape of Massachusetts” by Mark Jarzombek, February 2021 https://placesjournal.org/article/the-indianized-landscape-of-massachusetts/?cn-reloaded=1
Video:
- Beloved Kin and Memory Lands: Keynote Presentations, April 11, 2019. Noted historians, both separately and in conversation, will offer a scholarly reconsideration of histories of King Philip’s War. With Christine DeLucia, Associate Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College and author of “Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast,” and Lisa Brooks, Professor of English and American Studies at Amherst College and author of “Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War.”
- New England Puritans and Native Americans, Oct 25, 2018. In 1620, Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts, and established the first European colony in New England. Historians discussed how Puritans and Native Americans are memorialized at this event co-hosted by Suffolk University, New England Beginnings, and the Congregational Library and Archives.
- Marty Blatt, King Philip’s War in History and Memory, September 29, 2020. Simon Rabinovitch and Marty Blatt discuss the history of King Philip’s War and some efforts (and problems) with commemoration in Boston.
- Five Miles Astride the River: The Story of Wayland is a seventeen-minute documentary that traces the historical development of Wayland, Massachusetts, a small town located 20 miles west of Boston. The film was funded in 2013 by the Wayland Historical Society on the occasion of the Town of Wayland’s 375th anniversary.