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Presence, Violence, Absence, and Heritage: Exploring Indigenous-Settler Interactions across Centuries of Pennsylvania History

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Chair/Commenter: David Horst Lehman, Westminster College

“A Little Valley’s Hopes of Prosperity and Preservation Amid Chaos: Swedish Incorporation of English Imperialism in the Delaware Valley and the Decline of Lenape Power Before the Arrival of William Penn: 1669-1682”

Cole Mellinger, Independent Scholar

“Those Abandoned People”: Extralegal Violence and the Construction of Indian Policy on the Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1754-1768”

Sarah Donovan, College of William & Mary

“Presence and Absence in Pennsylvania: Reframing a Revolutionary Museum Object”

Laura Macaluso, Independent Scholar