This book takes a new approach by synthesizing the work of scholars of military and Indigenous history to provide the first chronologically ordered, region-wide

In 1678, the Puritan minister Samuel Nowell preached a sermon he called "Abraham in Arms," in which he urged his listeners to remember that "Hence it is no waye

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Across the borderlands of the early American northeast, New England, New France, and Native nations deployed women with surprising frequency to the front lines

An environmental and cultural history of winter in the colonial Northeast, examining indigenous and settler knowledge of life in the cold.