Neal Salisbury
Barbara Richmond 1940 Professor Emeritus in the Social Sciences (History)

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Neal Salisbury specializes in colonial-revolutionary North American history and Native American history. His research and writing interests center on indigenous Americans, particularly in the Northeast between 1500 and 1800. His publications include Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500-1643 (Oxford University Press, 1982); an edition of the famous captivity narrative by Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God (Bedford/St. Martin's, 1997; originally published in 1682); two volumes of essays, A Companion to American Indian History, edited with Philip J. Deloria (Blackwell, 2002), and Reinterpreting New England Indians and the Colonial Experience, edited with Colin G. Calloway (Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2003); and numerous articles, essays, and reviews. He is the co-author of two textbooks: The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People (Cengage, 7th ed., 2011), a college-level U.S. survey text; and The People: A History of Native America (Cengage, 2007). Most recently he has completed “Captivity,” an entry in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Atlantic History, edited by Trevor Burnard.

Neal’s long-range project is a volume that will extend the story in Manitou and Providence through the end of the Anglo-Indian conflict known as King Philip's War (1675-76). He is also preparing a chapter, “The Atlantic Northeast,” for The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History, edited by Frederick E. Hoxie. He co-edits a book series, Cambridge Studies in North American History, with Cambridge University Press, in which eleven volumes have been published to date. He is a past president of the American Society for Ethnohistory and has served on the Council of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture