Join the Harvard Early & Native American History Workshop for our Spring Semester Guest Lecture from Dr. Benjamin Madley of the University of California, Los Angeles, who will present his recent chapter, "'Too Furious': The Genocide of Connecticut's Pequot Indians, 1636-1640," from The Cambridge World History of Genocide (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

The 1636-1637 Pequot War and its aftermath were formative events in the making of New England and North America. Dr. Madley's chapter summarizes the ongoing modern Pequot genocide debate, narrates the cataclysm, provides new death toll estimates, discusses dispersal and enslavement as a genocidal strategies, reevaluates colonists' culpability, and explains how this catastrophe constituted genocide under the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention.

This is a hybrid event, and we encourage those joining virtually to RSVP here in order to receive a Zoom link.

The lecture will be held at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (61 Kirkland Street), Room 202.