The Place of Stone: Dighton Rock and the Erasure of America’s Indigenous Past. By Douglas Hunter. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017. This review was recently published in The Public Historian Vol. 40 No. 2, (May 2018): 170-172. In the early nineteenth century, Joseph Smith claimed that he unearthed golden plates in a New York hillside that told the … Continue reading Review of: The Place of Stone: Dighton Rock and the Erasure of America’s Indigenous Past
Pre-Columbian America
Myths of Discovery and the Desire to Acquire
This message was written by David M. Krueger and delivered at Arch Street United Methodist Church on on Sunday, September 20, 2015, just one week before the historic arrival of Pope Francis to the city. Also, Columbus Day is coming up in October and Arch Street UMC is hosting a forum on Wednesday, October 7 from … Continue reading Myths of Discovery and the Desire to Acquire