The 1619 Project and the Work of the Historian « The Junto
The First Decades of the Massachusetts Bay; or Idleness, Wolves, and a Man Who Shall No Longer Be Called Mister - Commonplace - The Journal of early American Life
Short essay for teachers to show that their teaching may be reflective of only one or two segments of society, ignoring the vast expanse of human experience at the time. It makes a strong argument for using the Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay to better understand the period
Without this work, John Winthrop’s will be the only story told in textbooks about this country’s colonial history. Instead, the <em>Records of the Governor and Company </em>allow us to teach other realities, like that of the unnamed Indian woman who was coerced into sex by John Dawe. The Puritan freemen may have the loudest voices in the archive, but theirs are not the only narratives being told.