History Research Seminar Series: When and where was “Early America”? by Prof. Peter Cooper Mancall

Peter C. Mancall is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the University of Southern California.  His books include Hakluyt’s Promise: An Elizabethan’s Obsession for an English America (2007), Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson—A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic (2009), and, the just-released The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England. He is currently at Oxford as the Harmsworth Professor of American History and completing a book entitled “American Origins,” which will be volume one of the Oxford History of the United States.