Please welcome a new member of our editorial team, Julie Fisher. Julie holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Delaware with a focus on Early American and Native American history. Her research centers on English-colonial politics, language acquisition,…
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Coming Soon . . .
Dear Colleagues, As you are probably aware, it’s been some time since we’ve updated the Op-Ed Blog. We’ve been quite busy. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be posting news about things we’ve been working on for last several months.…
“We did not land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us.”
For this Thanksgiving, we republish our post of November 27, 2013. Frank James, whose Wampanoag name is Wamsutta, organized the United American Indians of New England in 1970 after a speech he had written for the celebration of the 350th anniversary…
The Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, CT Receives National Historical Landmark Recognition
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis today announced the designation of the Foreign Mission School (The Steward House) of Cornwall, Connecticut as a new national historic landmark. Our colleague and YIPP advisor, John…
Taking Stock
One of the initial goals of the Indian Papers Project was to encourage new scholarly research on New England Native communities by providing free access to a fragmented and widely dispersed documentary record. Ten years later, we’re seeing the results…
Welcome to Our New Tribal Intern
YIPP editors would like to welcome Eric Maynard to the editorial staff. Eric is a recent graduate of the University of Rhode Island, with a Masters in Library and Information Studies. He is a member of the Mohegan Tribe of…
Indian Papers Project Receives Three-Year Grant From the National Endowment for the Humanities
YIPP editors are happy to announce that the Project has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities’ Scholarly Editing grant that will extend their work in Massachusetts for three more years. Taken together with the Mellon/CLIR and National Archives…