400 Years since Plymouth

AHA Session 76
Saturday, January 4, 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Trianon Ballroom (New York Hilton, Third Floor)
Chair:
Mary Beth Norton, Cornell University
Panel:
Jean M. O'Brien, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Kathryn Napier Gray, University of Plymouth
Eduard van de Bilt, University of Leiden
Alison F. Games, Georgetown University

Session Abstract

This session is intended to reflect on the 400th anniversary of settlement at Plymouth, not as a celebration, but as a reflection emphasizing the international context and how the events should be understood today. The "Pilgrim" narrative can best be understood through a series of contexts that includes Leiden, the Netherlands; Plymouth, England; the world of what would become Massachusetts in 1620; and the larger colonization frame of New England.
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