David J. Silverman

Washington, DC
United States

Elected to AAS

April 2011

Fellowships

2001-02: Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship
Project: Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community Among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600-1871
2005-06: AAS-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship
Project: Brothertown: American Indians and the Problem of Race
2010-11: AAS-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship
Project: Thundersticks: Firearms and the Transformation of Native America

Books Based on Fellowship Research

Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America

Harvard University Press, 2016

Red Brethren: The Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians and the Problem of Race in Early America

Cornell University Press, 2010

Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard 1600-1871

Cambridge University Press, 2005

Public Programs

Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America

October 12, 2017

Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600-1871

May 14, 2002

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