Courtney Borge and Saki Matsumoto One of the artifacts that has been part of the Massachusetts Historical Society’s collection for over 200 years is King Philip’s samp bowl. It is carved from elm burl wood and is an impressive example of Algonquian craftsmanship. At one end of the bowl, the wood curves upward and there […]
Cindy Chen, Hongyang Zhao and Jack Hemphill Our work puts primary emphasis on the historical significance of Benjamin Church’s cutlass and his active participation in the King Philip’s War. The paper is intended to help attain a refined understanding of Benjamin Church as the forefather of the army branch Ranger and of the artifact that […]
Rishab Nair and Ryan Feriancek The artifact at the center of our research paper is The Clear Sun-Shine of the Gospel Breaking forth upon the Indians in New England, and how it demonstrates the greater cultural and religious changes among the Puritans and the Wampanoag during the conversion effort in the fifteenth century. The work […]
Team Members: Elise Reehl 750-Word Description: This research paper centers on the artifact Tears of Repentance; or A Further Narrative of the Progress of the Gospel Amongst the Indians in New England written by John Eliot and his conversion of the Native American people to Christianity. The culture clash between the English people and the […]
Team Member: Victoria Tormey 750-Word Description: This research paper focuses on an artifact called Tears of Repentance; or A Further Narrative of the Progress of the Gospel Amongst the Indians in New England by John Elliot. This piece of text explains why and how John Eliot is converting the Native people from their Native ways […]
Dylan Woods, Chad Jones, and Stephanie Sala Lithographs are a type of artwork that consists of black and white shading. It looks very similar to modern sketching done with a pencil. This form of art was first created in Germany during the late 18th century. To create a lithograph, an artist presses down oil and […]
Nicole Corbo, Nicole Giella, and Quinn Treacy In 1688, John Van der Spriet, a Dutch Golden Age painter, produced an oil-on-canvas portrait of Increase Mather. Mather went to England as an agent of the Massachusetts Colony, and while there commissioned a portrait of himself. Such a request was commonplace among New English aristocrats. Increase Mather […]
John McLaughlin, Lyda Arevalo, and Theodore Phua The “Map of New-England” published in the Reverend William Hubbard’s 1677 The Present State of New-England being a Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New-England was the first map printed in the New World, and a rudimentary early depiction of the land on which the Massachusetts […]
Marin Bluestein, Alison Goldblatt, and Tyler Miller This research paper analyzes the flintlock used to kill Metacom at the end of King Phillip’s war in 1676. Our essay first goes into detail about the mechanical specifics of the flintlock, in combination with other parts of the weapon. The flintlock is described as the most significant […]
Peyton Coel and Cameron Close After arriving in New England to start a new life, the English settlers came face-to-face with the land’s initial inhabitants: the Native Americans. The two groups suddenly had to live alongside each other, even though they were very different and often didn’t understand each other’s cultures. William Wood, an English […]