Mark PetersonThe City-State of Boston

 

Join us as Mark Peterson discusses Boston and New England’s entry into the United States as contingent, not necessarily beneficial, and not the meaning or the fulfillment of its history. By recasting the story in this way, Peterson will bring to light elements of Boston’s past that United States national history has obscured, and uncover a more authentic understanding of the colonial past, attending to what was lost as well as what was produced in the making of the United States.

After his talk, Dr. Peterson will sign copies of the book, which will be available for purchase in the Newberry’s Rosenberg Bookshop.

About the Author

Mark Peterson is the Edmund S. Morgan Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of The Price of Redemption: The Spiritual Economy of Puritan New England.