Background
Vaughan, Alden True was born on January 23, 1929 in Providence. Son of Dana Prescott and Muriel Louise (True) Vaughan.
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This important new collection brings together ten of Alden Vaughan's essays about race relations in the British colonies. Focusing on the variable role of cultural and racial perceptions on colonial policies for Indians and African Americans, the essays include explorations of the origins of slavery and racism in Virginia, the causes of the Puritans' war against the Pequots, and the contest between natives and colonists to win the other's allegiance by persuasion or captivity. Less controversial but equally important to understanding the racial dynamics of early America are essays on early English paradigmatic views of Native Americans, the changing Anglo-American perceptions of Indian color and character, and frontier violence in pre-Revolutionary Pennsylvania. Published here for the first time are an extensive exposé of slaveholder ideology in seventeenth-century Barbados, the second half of an essay on Puritan judicial policies for Indians, a general introduction, and headnotes to each essay. All previously published pieces have been revised to reflect recent scholarship or to address recent debates. Challenging standard interpretations while probing previously-ignored aspects of early American race relations, this convenient and provocative collection by one our most incisive commentators will be required reading for all scholars and students of early American history.
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(Transatlantic Encounters examines the diverse origins and...)
Transatlantic Encounters examines the diverse origins and experiences of approximately 175 American Indians and Inuits who traveled to the British Isles before the American Revolution. Their homelands ranged from northern Canada to Brazil, their ages from infant to nonagenarian, their statuses from slave (the largest category) to "emperor," their occupations from warrior to missionary. Some American natives died soon after arrival, but others remained as long as fourteen years and returned home; still others, their arrival and death dates undocumented, may have endured long lives abroad. And always, Indians and Inuits fascinated the British people, whether the Americans were captives or on commercial display, interpreters-in-training, or voluntary voyagers to petition the monarch and tour Britain's famous sites. British artists painted their portraits and eminent writers invoked them in plays and essays. In the imperial crisis of 1776, Indian diplomats who had been to London would staunchly support the British Empire.
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( In contrast to most accounts of Puritan-Indian relation...)
In contrast to most accounts of Puritan-Indian relations, New England Frontier argues that the first two generations of Puritan settlers were neither generally hostile toward their Indian neighbors nor indifferent to their territorial rights. Rather, American Puritans-especially their political and religious leaders-sought peaceful and equitable relations as the first step in molding the Indians into neo-Englishmen. When accumulated Indian resentments culminated in the war of 1675, however, the relatively benign intercultural contact of the preceding fifty-five-year period rapidly declined. With a new introduction updating developments in Puritan-Indian studies in the last fifteen years, this third edition affords the reader a clear, balanced overview of a complex and sensitive area of American history.
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Vaughan, Alden True was born on January 23, 1929 in Providence. Son of Dana Prescott and Muriel Louise (True) Vaughan.
Bachelor, Amherst College, 1950. Master of Education, Columbia University, 1956. Master of Arts in History, Columbia University, 1958.
Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1964.
Teacher, Hackley School, Tarrytown, New York, 1950-1951;
teacher, Bachelor of Arts Davis High School, Mount Vernon, New York, 1956-1960;
From history instructor to professor, Columbia University, New York City, since 1961;
professor emeritus, Columbia University, New York City, 1994. Editor Political Science Quarterly, New York, 1970-1971. General editor Early American IndianDocuments, University Publications of America, since 1977.
Associate editor Encyclopedia of the North America Colonies, Scribners, New York, 1993. Visiting Adjunct Professor CUNY, Lehman College, New York City, 1971. Visiting professor Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1987.
( In contrast to most accounts of Puritan-Indian relation...)
(Transatlantic Encounters examines the diverse origins and...)
(This important new collection brings together ten of Alde...)
Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1951-1955. Member American Antiquarian Society, American Society for Ethnohistory, Shakespeare Association American, Society of America Historians (executive secretary, treasurer 1965-1970), Organization American Historians (program chairman 1976), Institute Early American History and Culture (council member 1985-1987), Colonial Society Massachusetts, Massachusetts History Society.
Married Lauraine A. Freethy, June 1, 1956 (divorced 1981). Children: Jeffrey Alden, Lynn Elizabeth. Married Virginia Mason Carr, July 16, 1983.