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The Mohicans are an Eastern Algonquian Native American tribe that historically spoke an Algonquian language. As part of the Eastern Algonquian family of tribes,they are related to the neighboring Lenape,whose indigenous territory was to the south as far as the Atlantic coast. The Mohican lived in the upper tidal Hudson River Valley,including the confluence of the Mohawk River and into western New England centered on the upper Housatonic River watershed. After 1680,due to conflicts with the powerful Mohawk to the west during the Beaver Wars,many were driven southeastward across the present-day Massachusetts western border and the Taconic Mountains to Berkshire County around Stockbridge,Massachusetts.
Samuel Eliot Morison was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history and American history that were both authoritative and popular. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1912,and taught history at the university for 40 years. He won Pulitzer Prizes for Admiral of the Ocean Sea (1942),a biography of Christopher Columbus,and John Paul Jones:A Sailor's Biography (1959). In 1942,he was commissioned to write a history of United States naval operations in World War II,which was published in 15 volumes between 1947 and 1962. Morison wrote the popular Oxford History of the American People (1965),and co-authored the classic textbook The Growth of the American Republic (1930) with Henry Steele Commager.
Hendrick Theyanoguin,whose name had several spelling variations,was a Mohawk leader and member of the Bear Clan. He resided at Canajoharie or the Upper Mohawk Castle in colonial New York. He was a Speaker for the Mohawk Council. Hendrick formed a close alliance with Sir William Johnson,the Superintendent of Indian affairs in North America.
Edward Perkins Channing was an American historian and an author of a monumental History of the United States in six volumes,for which he won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for History. His thorough research in printed sources and judicious judgments made the book a standard reference for scholars for decades. Channing taught at Harvard 1883–1929 and trained many PhD's who became professors at major universities.
Robert Choate Darnton is an American cultural historian and academic librarian who specializes in 18th-century France.
Josiah Quincy III was an American educator and political figure. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1805–1813),mayor of Boston (1823–1828),and President of Harvard University (1829–1845). The historic Quincy Market in downtown Boston is named in his honor. A panel of 69 scholars in 1993 ranked him among the ten best mayors in American history.
Ephraim Emerton was an American educator,author,translator,and historian prominent in his field of European medieval history.
Walter Muir Whitehill was an American writer,historian,medievalist,preservationist,and the Director and Librarian of the Boston Athenaeum from 1946 to 1973. He was also editor for publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts from 1946 to 1978. From 1951 to 1972,Whitehill was a professor at Harvard University.
David C. Berliner is an educational psychologist. He was a professor and dean of the Mary Lou Fulton Institute and Graduate School of Education.
Daniel Walker Howe is an American historian who specializes in the early national period of U.S. history,with a particular interest in its intellectual and religious dimensions. He was Rhodes Professor of American History at Oxford University in England and Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California,Los Angeles. He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for History for What Hath God Wrought (2007),his most famous book. He was president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic in 2001,and is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Historical Society.
Herbert Gintis was an American economist,behavioral scientist,and educator known for his theoretical contributions to sociobiology,especially altruism,cooperation,epistemic game theory,gene-culture coevolution,efficiency wages,strong reciprocity,and human capital theory. Throughout his career,he worked extensively with economist Samuel Bowles. Their landmark book,Schooling in Capitalist America,had multiple editions in five languages since it was first published in 1976. Their book,A Cooperative Species:Human Reciprocity and its Evolution was published by Princeton University Press in 2011.
David Reynolds,is a British historian. He is Emeritus Professor of International History at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Christ's College,Cambridge.
Edward Countryman is an American historian.
D. Quentin Miller is a professor of the English language and literature at Suffolk University in Boston. He earned his B.A. from Boston College in 1989,his M.A. from the College of William and Mary in 1990,and his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in 1996.
Hendrick Tejonihokarawa,also known as Tee Yee Neen Ho Ga Row and Hendrick Peters was a pro-English leader of the Mohawk in the Province of New York in the early 18th century. He was one of the "Four Mohawk Kings" who went to London in 1710 to meet with Queen Anne of Great Britain and her court to mark a treaty with her. The chiefs requested the Queen's help in controlling French influence in New York and asked for English missionaries to help their people offset French Catholic influence. The Mohawk diplomacy helped the Iroquois preserve their power through the colonial years.
The Kayaderossera Patent was a grant of land made by Anne,Queen of Great Britain in 1701 to thirteen subjects. The patent included 406,000 acres (164,000 ha) comprising most of what is now Saratoga County and parts of Montgomery,Schenectady,and Fulton Counties.
William Dana Orcutt (1870-1953) was an American book designer,typeface designer,historian,and author.
Rebecca Kellogg Ashley was an English child captured by allied French,Canadian militia,Iroquois,and Algonquin soldiers in the 1704 Deerfield Raid. The Deerfield attack was part of the decade-long Queen Anne's War. Rebecca was eight years old. Eunice Williams was captured in this same raid,as was her father,John Williams who wrote about his captive experience in The Redeemed Captive. Like Eunice and several other children from Deerfield,Rebecca Kellogg was adopted by Haudenosaunee Mohawks in the town of Kahnawake. She married and she raised children.
Andrew C. Isenberg is the Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas. He is a specialist in environmental history,Native American history,and the history of the North American West and its borderlands. He was born in Chicago,Illinois,and educated at St. Olaf College,from which he graduated magna cum laude. He received his Ph.D. in History from Northwestern University. He previously taught at the University of Puget Sound,Brown University,Princeton University,and Temple University.
The History of the Five Indian Nations is a book by the natural scientist Cadwallader Colden,who served as the governor of the Province of New York. It was first published in New York in 1727 and a second edition was published in London in 1747.
