Peter C. Mancall

Mancall is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Professor of History and Anthropology, and the Linda and Harlan Martens Director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. His latest book is The Trials of Thomas Morton

Recent Articles

The Moment that Changed Colonial-Indigenous Relations Forever

On March 22, 1622, Powhatan fighters killed 347 English colonists in Virginia. The English quickly called it a “massacre.” The colony, founded in 1607, could have collapsed. Instead, the survivors, supported by reinforcements and new...

By Peter C. Mancall

The ‘First Thanksgiving’ Story Covers Up the All Too Real Violence in Early America

The 17th century is having a moment. In 2019, the world observed the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia. This year marks 400 years since English Pilgrims and Wampanoags...

By Peter C. Mancall

The Evolving Meaning of the Pilgrims and Plymouth

The word “Plymouth” may conjure up visions of Pilgrims in search of religious freedom, but that vision does not reflect reality

By Peter C. Mancall
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