Memory Lands

DeLucia writes . . . with considerable attention and imagination. -Wall Street Journal Given the book's content and methodology, a wide range of scholars will find this work both insightful and provocative -Joshua Catalano, Journal of Social History Awarded Honorable Mention for the 2019 National Council on Public History book prize Winner of the 2019 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize, sponsored by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Winner of the 2019 Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize, sponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society Winner of the Lois P. Rudnick Prize, sponsored by the New England American Studies Association A brilliant exploration of the interweaving of past, present, and future, Memory Lands casts a fresh light on the maelstrom of violence now known as King Philip's War. The landscape of New England will never look the same after reading this important and haunting book. -Karl Jacoby, author of Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History Having tromped through woods, swamps, and widely-flung archives, Christine DeLucia has produced a powerfully poetic study of the dynamic, frequently conflicting meanings of Indigenous and settler memoryscapes in New England. -Jean M. O'Brien, author of Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England A remarkable 'reopening' of the history of New England. Christine DeLucia turns our attention to the 'memoryscapes' in our midst, demanding reconsideration of the markers, monuments, objects and placeworlds that memorialize King Philip's War, alongside the processes that alternatively repress and recover Indigenous histories of survivance. -Lisa Brooks, author of Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War