Bien loin de l'image popularisée par Disney, l'unique portrait réalisé du vivant de Pocahontas éclaire la manière dont les Anglais voyaient les peuples autochtones et justifiaient leur projet colonial.
- Distinguished Professor and Professor of the Humanities, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
European colonial powers linked church and state. But the founders of the United States broke from that idea as surely as they broke from Britain.
The English assumed people they colonized would convert to their way of life, including Protestant Christianity – an assumption reflected in Pocahontas’ portrait.
Po'pay, a Tewa religious leader, led the Pueblo Revolt, the most successful Indigenous rebellion in what’s now the United States.
President Trump’s politics of resentment recall the US colonial era, when grievances fueled rage and violence.
The communion between Native Americans and the Pilgrims makes for a compelling narrative. But it masks the suspicions and brewing violence that were far more representative of the era.
The Puritans had little tolerance for those who didn’t conform to their vision of the world.
It was less about their asceticism and more about rejecting the world they had fled.
Descendants from the Pilgrims were keen to highlight their ancestors’ role in the country’s founding. But their sanitized version of events is only now starting to be told in full.
During two 17th-century medical calamities, economic imperatives outweighed moral concerns.
When the founders wrote the Constitution, they had to devise a punishment fitting for a civil servant’s impeachment. One possible punishment: banishment from the community.
The Pilgrims repeatedly thanked God for their good fortune. But without two earlier developments, the entire undertaking at New Plymouth would have likely failed.
El viaje de Colón en 1492 fue realmente un viaje hacia lo desconocido. Siglos de historias legendarias le habían hecho creer que en las Indias le esperaban bestias extrañas y hombres monstruosos.
Christopher Columbus’ 1492 voyage was really a journey into the unknown. Centuries of conventional wisdom had conditioned him to believe that bizarre beasts and ‘monstrous men’ would be awaiting him.
The Pilgrims were thankful for finally being able to vanquish Thomas Morton and Ferdinando Gorges, who spent years trying to undermine the legal basis for settlements in Massachusetts and beyond.
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