Tuesday, September 27, 2016
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM (ET)
Maxwell--Heritage Room
Event Type
Lecture
Contact
Orson Kingsley
Link
https://ems.bridgew.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=21910
In
early New England, particularly in Massachusetts, the rise of printing
coincided with the rise of imperial war. Most colonists did not
experience the violence of French and Indian raiding, but they heard and
read about it—at length. This presentation explores communication as an
important dimension of war, especially in rendering Massachusetts and
the rest of New England more vulnerable to terror. Katherine Grandjean
is a Professor of History at Wellesley College and the author of American Passage: The Communications Frontier in Early New England.
Sponsored by the Maxwell Library