During the course of researching and writing this series, I have consulted a long list of materials for information. While it is by no means an exhaustive list of all of the available materials out there, it is a place to start should you be interested in learning more on the subjects of Indigenous history, Indigenous enslavement, and King Philip’s War. If there are any materials that we are missing -written, visual, or otherwise- please share them in the comments below!
Monographs
Brooks, Lisa. The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast. Minneapolis: Univ. Of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Brooks, Lisa. Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2018.
Brown, Jennifer S.H., and Elizabeth Vibert, Reading Beyond Words: Contexts for Native History (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996)
Drake, James D. King Philip’s War: Civil War in New England, 1675-1676. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.
Ellis, George and John Morris, King Philip’s War. NY: Grafton Press, 1906. pp. 69-83. Public Domain. Accessed via University of Chicago.
Fisher, Linford D., Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in US History. New York: Liveright Publishing Co., 2026.
Fixico, Donald L., Rethinking American Indian History. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997.
Gookin, Daniel. An historical account of the doings and sufferings of the Christian Indians in New England in the years 1675, 1676, 1677. Edward E. Ayer Digital Collection (Newberry Library), Ms 3090. Hosted by the CARI Digital Collections. https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/digital/collection/nby_eeayer/id/27752
Hubbard, William. The History of the Indian Wars in New England from the First Settlement to the Termination of the War with King Philip in 1677, from the Original Work by the Rev. William Hubbard (1677), vol. 1 (reprint, edited by Samuel G. Drake, 1865; Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1990)
Lepore, Jill. The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity. New York: Vintage Books, 1998.
Lodi, Edward. Who, When, Where in King Philip’s War. Middleborough: Rock Village Publishing, 2015.
Newell, Margaret Ellen. Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.
O’Brien, Jean M. Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Philbrick, Nathaniel. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War. New York: Penguin Books, 2006.
Richter, Daniel K. Facing East from Indian Country: A Narrative History of Early America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Rowlandson, Mary. Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, by Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. (Cambridge, MA, 1682)
Schultz, Eric B. and Michael J. Tougias, King Philip’s War: The History and Legacy of America’s Forgotten Conflict. Woodstock: Countryman Press, 2000. eBook. N.p., archive.org.
Silverman, David J. This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
Stratton, Billy J. Buried in Shades of Night: Contested Voices, Indian Captivity, and the Legacy of King Philip’s War. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013.
Williams, Roger. A Key Into the Language of America. 1643. Edited by Dawn Dove, Sandra Robinson, Lorén Spears, Dorothy Herman Papp, and Kathleen Bragdon. The Tomaquag Museum Edition. Pennsylvania: Westholme Publishing, 2019.
Articles
Anderson, Virginia DeJohn. “King Philip’s Herds: Indians, Colonists, and the Problem of Livestock in Early New England.” The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 51, no. 4 (1994): 601-624.
Angell, Stephen W. “‘Learn of the Heathen”: Quakers and Indians in Southern New England, 1656-1676.” Quaker History, Vol. 92, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 1-21. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947503
Bilodeau, Christopher J. “Creating an Indian Enemy in the Borderlands: King Philip’s War in Maine, 1675-1678.” Maine History, Vol. 47, no. 1. The Maine Borderlands. (2013): 10-41. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainehistoryjournal/vol47/iss1/3
Bragdon, Kathleen Joan. “Crime and Punishment among the Indians of Massachusetts, 1675-1750.” Ethnohistory, Vol. 26, no. 1 (1981): 23-32. https://www.jstor.org/stable/481576
Brooks, Lisa. “Turning the Looking Glass on King Philip’s War: Locating American Literature in Native Space.” American Literary History, Winter 2013, Vol. 25, no. 4. Special Issue: History, Historicism, and Historiography (Winter 2013): 718-750. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43817600
Cesarini, J. Patrick. “‘What Has Become of Your Praying to God?’ Daniel Gookin’s Troubled History of King Philip’s War.” Early American Literature, Vol. 44, no. 3 (2009): 489-515. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27750147.
Clark, Brian E. “Brown Transfers Land in Bristol to Preservation Trust Established by Pokanoket Tribe,” News from Brown, November 15, 2024, Digital edition, https://www.brown.edu/news/2024-11-15/bristol-land.
Cray, Robert E. Jr., “‘Weltering in Their Own Blood’: Puritan Casualties in King Philip’s War.” Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Vol. 37 (Fall 2009): 106-123.
Cook, Sherburne F. “Interracial Warfare and Population Decline Among the New England Indians.” Ethnohistory, Vol. 20, no. 1 (1973): 1-24. https://www.jstor.org/stable/481423
Cranston, G.T. “The View from Swamptown: Remembering those lost at the Great Swamp Massacre.” Independent RI, December 11, 2022.
DeLucia, Christine. “Locating Kickemuit: Springs, Stone Materials and Contested Placemaking in the Northeastern Borderlands.” Early American Studies, Vol. 13, no. 2 (2015): 467-502.
DeLucia, Christine. “The Memory Frontier: Uncommon Pursuit of Past and Place in the Northeast after King Philip’s War.” The Journal of American History, March 2012, Vol. 98, no. 4 (March 2012): 975-997. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41509572
Derounian, Kathryn Zabelle. “Puritan Orthodoxy and the ‘Survivor Syndrome’ in Mary Rowlandson’s Indian Captivity Narrative.” Early American Literature 22, no. 1 (1987): 82–93. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25056648
Drake, James. “Restraining Atrocity: The Conduct of King Philip’s War.” The New England Quarterly, Vol. 70, no. 1 (Mar., 1997): 33-56. https://doi.org/10.2307/366526
Fisher, Linford D. and Lucas Mason-Brown. “By ‘Treachery and Seduction’: Indian Baptism and Conversion in the Roger Williams Code.” The William and Mary Quarterly 71, no. 2 (2014): 175-202. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5309/willmaryquar.71.2.0175
Fisher, Linford D. “Dangerous Designes”: The 1676 Barbados Act to Prohibit New England Indian Slave Importation.” The William and Mary Quarterly Vol. 71, no. 1 (January 2014): 99–124. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5309/willmaryquar.71.1.0099
Fisher, Linford D. “‘Why shall wee have peace to bee made slaves?’ Indian Surrenderers During and After King Philip’s War.” Ethnohistory, Vol. 64, no. 1 (January 2017): 91-114.
Fisher, Lindford D. “Native Americans, Conversion, and Christian Practice in Colonial New England, 1640-1730.” The Harvard Theological Review. Vol. 102, no. 1 (Jan. 2009): 101-124. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40211987
Gardner, Mark Kenneth. “South Kingstown at 300 – Part 2: From King Philip’s War to 1723.” Small State Big History, April 15, 2023.
Gould, Philip. “Reinventing Benjamin Church: Virtue, Citizenship and the History of King Philip’s War in Early National America.” Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 16, no. 4 (1996): 645-657.
Gorse, B. Donald. “Edwin Forrest, ‘Metamora’, and the Indian Removal Act of 1830.” Theatre Journal, Vol. 37, no. 2 (May 1985): 181-191. https://doi.org/10.2307/3207064
Holst, Anne D. “Indian Forts in Early Rhode Island.” Small State Big History, May 3, 2024.
Kirschenbaum, Matthew. “Contests for Meaning: Playing King Philip’s War in the Twenty-First Century” in Past Play: Teaching and Learning History with Technology, ed. Kevin Kee. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014): 198-213. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv65swr0.13
Kuffner, Alex. “Pocasset Wampanoag Tribe reclaims 40 acres in Tiverton.” The Providence Journal, January 29, 2025.
Leach, Douglas E. “Benjamin Batten and the London Gazette Report on King Philip’s War.” The New England Quarterly, Vol. 36, no. 4 (1963): 502-517. https://www.jstor.org/stable/363109
Lepore, Jill. “Dead Men Tell No Tales: John Sassamon and the Fatal Consequences of Literacy.” American Quarterly, Vol. 46, no. 4 (1994): 479-512. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2713381
Lepore, Jill. “Historians Who Love Too Much: Reflections on Microhistory and Biography.” The Journal of American History 88, no. 1 (2001): 129–44. https://doi.org/10.2307/2674921.
Lipman, Andrew. “‘A Meanes to Knitt Them Togeather’: The Exchange of Body Parts in the Pequot War.” The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 65, No. 1 (Jan., 2008): 3-28. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25096768
McBurney, Christian. “Queen’s Fort—Stone Refuge for Quaiapen, 1675-1676.” Small State Big History, March 9, 2019.
Morrison, Kenneth M. “The Bias of Colonial Law: English Paranoia and the Abenaki Arena of King Philip’s War, 1675-1678.” The New England Quarterly, Vol. 53, no. 3 (1980): 363-387. https://www.jstor.org/stable/365129
Potter, Tiffany. “Writing Indigenous Femininity: Mary Rowlandson’s Narrative of Captivity.” Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 36, no. 2, False Arcadias (Winter, 2003): 153-167. https://www.jstor.org/stable/30053358
Puglisi, Michael, “Reading Between the Lines: Early English Accounts of the New England Indians,” Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Volume 24, no. 1 (Winter 1996). https://www.westfield.ma.edu/historical-journal/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Puglisi-combined.pdf
Pulsipher, Jenny Hale. “Massacre at Hurtleberry Hill: Christian Indians and English Authority in Metacom’s War.” The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 53, no. 3, Indians and Others in Early America (Jul., 1996): 459-486. https://doi.org/10.2307/2947201
Pulsipher, Jenny Hale. “‘Our Sages are Sageles’: A Letter on Massachusetts Indian Policy after King Philip’s War.” The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 58, no. 2 (2001): 431-448. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2674192
Pulsipher, Jenny Hale. “‘Subjects...Unto the Same King’: New England Indians and the Use of Royal Political Power.” Massachusetts Historical Review, Vol. 5: 29-57. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25081179
Ranlet, Philip. “Another Look at the Causes of King Philip’s War.” The New England Quarterly, Vol. 61, no. 1 (Mar., 1988): 79-100. https://doi.org/10.2307/365221.
Richter, Daniel J. “Whose Indian History?” The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 50 (Apr. 1993), 379-393. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2947082
Sheridan, Thomas E. “How to Tell the Story of a ‘People without History.’ Narrative versus Ethnohistorical Approaches to the Study of the Yaqui Indians through Time.” Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 30 (1988), 168-189. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40169601
Valikova, Roumiana. “Philip, King of the Pequots”: The History of an Error.” Early American Literature, Vol. 37, no. 2 (2002): 311-335. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25057266
Worrall, Arthur J. “Persecution, Politics, and War: Roger Williams, Quakers, and King Philip’s War.” Quaker History, Vol. 66, no. 2 (1977): 73-86. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41946832
Dissertations, Theses & Digital Humanities Projects
Aultman, Jennifer L. “From Thanksgiving to War: Native Americans in Criminal Cases of Plymouth Colony, 1630-1675.” (University of Virginia, 1997). http://www.histarch.illinois.edu/plymouth/wampanoag.html
Brooks, Lisa. “Our Beloved Kin: Remapping A New History of King Philip’s War.” (Digital Humanities Accompaniment). https://ourbelovedkin.com/awikhigan/index
Damon, Laura, “Muskets in Misery Swamp: An Investigation into a King Philip’s War Battle.” (Master’s Thesis, University of Rhode Island, 2018). Open Access Master’s Theses. Paper 1411. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/theses/1411
Fisher, Linford D., et al., “Stolen Relations: Centuries of Native American Enslavement in the Americas” (Video, Historic Boston, Boston, December 12, 2023),
LaCroix, Lawrence K. “Captain Pierce’s Fight: An Investigation Into a King Philip’s War Battle and its Remembrance and Memorialization.” (Master’s Thesis, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2011). Graduate Masters Theses. https://scholarworks.umb.edu/masters_theses/69
Native Northeast Portal. “Native Northeast Portal,” n.d. https://nativenortheastportal.com/
Sagar, Lauren, “New World Rivals: The Role of the Narragansetts in the Breakdown of Anglo-Native Relations During King Philip’s War” (2011). History & Classics Undergraduate Theses. 28. https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/history_undergrad_theses/28
Podcasts
Noorda, Terry. King Philip’s War. Discovering America Podcast, February 20, 2021.
New Books in Native American Studies. Christine M. DeLucia, “Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast.” Sept. 9, 2019. 54:22.
New Books in Native American Studies. Lisa Brooks, “Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War.” Jan. 17, 201. 1:04:37.
A History of the United States. Episode 56: King Philip’s War. Sept. 19, 2016. 20:26.
Other
Atun-Shei Films. “King Philip’s War in Chronological Order.” Playlist. 2019-2024.
Partnership of Historic Bostons. Kevin March, “The Unknown War: King Philip’s War, 1675-1678.” March 11, 2026.
Partnership of Historic Bostons. Linford D. Fisher, “Surviving Slavery: Indigenous Enslavement in King Philip’s War.” April 16, 2026.
Partnership of Historic Bostons. “The Past is Now: An Inter-Tribal Panel Discussion of King Philip’s War.” March 25, 2026.
Partnership of Historic Bostons. David Brule, David Naumec, and Liz Cold Wind Santana-Kiser, “What Really Happened at Turners Falls?” May 6, 2026.
Rhode Island Historical Society, “King Philip’s War with National Park Ranger John McNiff (Virtual Valley Talks 2021).” January 11, 2021.
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