CCAS Academy: The History We Were Never Taught: Five Myths About Early America featuring Professor David Silverman

Join CCAS Professor of History David J. Silverman for a virtual CCAS alumni event as he challenges five commonly held myths about America’s colonial past. Drawing on his extensive research on Native American‚ colonial‚ and racial history‚ Professor Silverman will revisit familiar stories about the founding of America and reveal the people‚ conflicts‚ relationships‚ and historical realities that are often left out.

From the experiences and political power of Native nations to the complex relationships between colonists and Indigenous communities‚ this conversation will invite us to reconsider what we think we know about America’s beginnings. Professor Silverman will also examine the central role of slavery in colonial history‚ including the enslavement of Indigenous peoples and West Africans‚ and explore how slavery shaped the development of colonial America.

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David J. Silverman is a professor of history at George Washington University. He is the author of the award-winning This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians‚ Plymouth Colony‚ and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving(Bloomsbury‚ 2019)‚ as well as Thundersticks‚ Ninigret‚ Red Brethren‚ Faith and Boundaries‚ and The Chosen and the Damned. His essays have appeared in the New York Times‚ the Atlantic‚ the Washington Post‚ National Geographic‚ and the Daily Beast. He lives in Washington‚ D.C.