Posted on 12/26/2016 11:31:54 AM PST by Lorianne
As the U.S. gears up to mark the 400th anniversary of its roots as a nation, leading scholars from around the globe are teaming up to dispel myths and challenge long-held assumptions about how the country was settled.
Their group, New England Beginnings, is using phone apps and searchable online archives to help set the record straight about the early 1600s — and fill in some important knowledge gaps.
"All many people know is that the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth in 1620, Boston was started in 1630, and then in 1776 we had a revolution," said Rose Doherty, president of the Partnership of Historic Bostons, a group devoted to the 17th-century history of the city and the much-older Boston in Lincolnshire on the east coast of England.
Doherty's organization is among 19 prominent groups that comprise New England Beginnings. Others include the American Antiquarian Society, the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Rhode Island's Tomaquag Museum, Britain's History of Independence Project and the Leiden American Pilgrim Museum in the Netherlands.
Together, they see an opening as the U.S. prepares in 2020 to mark the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims' arrival in 1620.
"There's a lot of attention being paid right now to how you distinguish between real news and fake news. But this is something historians grapple with all the time," said Francis Bremer, a professor emeritus of history at Pennsylvania's Millersville University and the coordinator of New England Beginnings.
A key focus, Bremer said, is presenting a much more complete and accurate picture of how the early settlers interacted with Native Americans.
Underscoring the gulf between how natives and white Americans see history, on every Thanksgiving since 1970, members of New England tribes have gathered in downtown Plymouth for a solemn National Day of Mourning observance that recalls the disease, racism and oppression the settlers brought.
"It's an important part of the story that's really taken a back seat for a long time. You just can't bury history," said Paula Peters, a writer and activist and a member of Massachusetts' Wampanoag tribe. "People don't know how quickly it became repressive for the Wampanoags. Ship after ship after ship arrived, and they came with laws and deeds. You really have to put yourself in the moccasins of the people who were enduring that."
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You are correct.
National Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving
F$&@ those jerks. And the papoose they rode in on.
Genocide reigned supreme in pre-colonial America. Indians should be thankful that God intervened by sending civilized Christians to save them from themselves. Otherwise America would be as bad as Africa
They probably would have survived but many of their cultures were horrific by today’s standards.
Likewise the European settlers held values that would not be acceptable today.
People do not understand that history is linear, you can’t go back and judge people from past eras by today’s standards, and you certainly cannot do it one sided. It is dishonest to do so.
The Ivy League schools were set up to help Indians in all ways. This tells us everything we need to know about the English settlers.
One such early history is, "Rise of the Republic of the United States" - Richard Frothingham.
We know that "ideas have consequences," as Weaver observed, but, in 2017, we must remind American citizens that the ideas of 1776 came out of a set of ideas consistent with liberty.
We tend to forget, or have never considered, that other world views existed then, as now--ideas ranging from the barbaric to simple political tyranny.
Unless today's citizens rediscover the ideas of liberty existing in what Jefferson called "the American mind" of 1776, we risk going back to the "Old World" ideas which preceded the "Miracle of America."
There are those who call themselves "progressives," when, in fact, their ideas are regressive and enslaving, and as old as the history of civilization.
Would suggest to any who wish an authentic history of the ideas underlying American's founding a visit to this web site, at which Richard Frothingham's outstanding 1872 "History of the Rise of the Republic of the United States" can be read on line.
This 600+-page history traces the ideas which gave birth to the American founding. Throughout, Richard Frothingham, the historian, develops the idea that it is "the Christian idea of man" which allowed the philosophy underlying the Declaration of Independence and Constitution to become a reality--an idea which recognizes the individual and the Source of his/her "Creator"-endowed life, liberty and law.
Is there any wonder that the enemies of freedom, the so-called "progressives," do not promote such authentic histories of America? Their philosophy puts something called "the state," or "global interests" as being superior to individuals and requires a political elitist group to decide what role individuals are to play.
In other words, they must turn the Founders' ideas upside-down in order to achieve a common mediocrity for individuals and power for themselves.
Lets not forget...THE WINNERS WRITE THE HISTORY!!
You left out cannibalism and rape.
The ideas of 1776 actually began well before that time.
History is linear and ideas build up over time with many different influences.
There are a few honest historians who try to make these points but most are ideological hacks using spin to make their points
And much more besides.
All was not rosy on the European side either, and not just on this continent.
I wish historians would be more honest and sanguine about history .... Cut out the emotion and just report the facts.
And how the natives valued sameness, not progress, and lived to a ripe old life expectancy of about 37 years.
Also, did the author purposely leave out 1609 Jamestown? How about Roanoake’s probable massacre?
Next we will learn how the white settlers taught the Indians to scalp people. Anybody else heard that joke?
Let's start with the fake news contained in their name. It began at Jamestown, Virginia over a decade earlier. The Viriginia House Of Burgesses was up and running colonial government before the Pilgrims ever blundered into Cape Cod on their way to their grant in... Virginia!
Even those you identify as "honest historians," however, over several decades now, have been hampered in their research, because the so-called "liberals," now "progressives," over a period of several decades, did a masterful job in removing from the shelves of libraries and of schools the books that contained the early histories.
On the other hand, however, their efforts are being reversed now by the new technologies which have allowed the ancient volumes and later histories to be digitized and available at the click of a mouse in any home or office.
Something about that is delightful, don't you think? Almost as if "Divine Providence," as the Founders identified it, was having a hand in restoring what had been "hidden."
Boston 1630
That was the year the Winthrop fleet...11 ships with 1,000 English settlers from Suffolk, Gloustershire and a couple of other counties ..arrived with the first Gov of MASS, Winthrop and his family..
The ships were the flagship Arabella, and Ambrose, Charles, Hopewell, Jewel, Mayflower, Success, Talbot, Trial, Whale, William & Francis
My ancestor, John Sales/Jan Celes and his 4 year old daughter Phoebe were amongst them...
Sales was member #21 in the new Boston Church, August, 1630..
When he moved to Manhattan, his plantation was known as “Old Jan’s Land” and Trinity Church now stands on part of that..
The American Paradise before the “Evil” white man came...
http://www.dickshovel.com/scalp.html
http://ancientstandard.com/2007/07/17/csi-new-mexico-%E2%80%93-possible-genocide-ca-1275-ad/
All this before metal or horses were introduced. True STONE AGE men.
In all fairness go back 7000 years and you will see the same thing in Europe, Asia and Africa-everywhere!
bkmk
wow, interesting.
It’s good that you have so much information on your ancestors. I wish I had. So far I have been able to track one on my grandfathers side back to 1753 but no info on them except for names and dates of birth and location.
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