Pilgrims, Puritans, and the Battle for New England: Interview with Historian Peter Mancall

Tides of History

Audible / Patrick Wyman

History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 6.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The Pilgrims and the Puritans dominate our understanding not just of early New England, but also early America and the entire future course of American history. Yet their success and long-term influence weren't foreordained, and they weren't inevitable. Peter Mancall, Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford and Mellon Professor of the Humanities at USC, joins us to talk about his new book, The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Tides of History, add free on Amazon Music.
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0:11.2	Hi, everybody.
0:12.5	From Wondery, welcome to another episode of Tides of History.
0:15.2	I'm Patrick Wimbledon.
0:16.2	Thanks for joining me.
0:17.2	We've got a wonderful guest in the studio with us today.
0:20.5	He's the Melon Professor of the Humanities at USC and is currently the Harm's Worth
0:24.0	Professor of American History at Oxford where he's spending this year.
0:27.0	He's also the author of numerous books, one of which I chatted about with him here on
0:30.6	Tides a couple of years back, which makes him one of our very few repeat guests.
0:35.1	His most recent title, which I just had the pleasure of reading and which I highly recommend
0:38.7	you all, is The Trials of Thomas Morton, an Anglican lawyer, his Puritan foes, and the
0:43.9	battle for a New England.
0:45.5	Peter Mankel, thank you so much for chatting with me today.
0:47.2	Oh, thanks for having me, Pat.
0:48.2	I'm delighted to be here.
0:49.6	So The Trials of Thomas Morton's a fascinating book.
0:51.8	It focuses on Thomas Morton, a very early colonist in what becomes Massachusetts, and
0:56.5	his struggles with the far better known pilgrims and Puritans who come to dominate the colony.
1:01.7	If I've read this right, your argument is essentially that Morton represents a road
1:05.2	not taken in terms of the future development of New England, that the Puritan dominated
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