Partnership of the Historic Bostons Presents: Building Colonies in the New England Way
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Partnership of the Historic Bostons, Inc.
Date: Wednesday, September 9, at 7:00 pm. All fall lectures by Zoom. Registration required: see For More Information link.
How the 17th-century governments of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, New Haven, formed the United Colonies of New England in 1643.
Wed. Sept 9 – “Building Colonies in the New England Way”- Dr. Neal Dugre – winner of 2017 Whitehill Prize. This talk considers how the leaders in seventeenth-century Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, New Haven, and Rhode Island nurtured and subverted their respective enterprises via a confederation called the United Colonies of New England.
Compared to other areas of English colonization, New England was unusual for the number of colonies that took root there in the seventeenth century. Colonists discovered early on that carefully managing relations among their settlements would prove critical to their collective survival. This talk explores the governments that emerged in early Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, New Haven, and Rhode Island and, in particular, the ways colonists designed the United Colonies of New England, a coalition established in 1643, to help erect puritan colonies in North America.
Biography
A Massachusetts native, Neal Dugre received his doctorate from Northwestern University and is a historian of early America and the Atlantic World. His research focuses on English colonization in seventeenth-century New England, particularly intercolonial politics and relations between colonists and Native Americans. His current project, entitled "Inventing New England: The Rise and Fall of the United Colonies in British North America, 1630-1684," has been supported by fellowships from the American Historical Association, Massachusetts Historical Society, Newberry Library, Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies, and other institutions.
Dr. Dugre joined the UHCL faculty as assistant professor of history in the fall of 2014. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on early American, Native American, Atlantic, and United States history.