National Book Award Finalist: A study of national myths, lore, and identity that “will interest all those concerned with American cultural history” (America

Originally published: Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1973.

Discusses the subjugation of Native Americans on the American frontier, and explains how it was used to justify American territorial expansion.

A classic selection of materials on Philip's War. For the newly established New England colonies, the war with the Indians of 1675–77 was a catastrophe that p