New England Beginnings
New England Beginnings, is a partnership to encourage and promote activities that commemorate the cultures that shaped early New England. The activities we are focused on are designed to 1) tell the stories of the region in the seventeenth century to a wide, general public audience and 2) enhance accessibility of resources for future scholarship in the field. Partnership is voluntary and does not
imply endorsement of member programs by the other members.
Coordinator
Francis J. Bremer, Professor Emeritus of History, Millersville University of PA
Partner Institutions
Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Commission on Indian Affairs
Congregational Library and Archives
Database of Indigenous Slavery in the Americas
Harvard University Libraries Colonial North American Project
Historic Burying Grounds Initiative
Jonathan Edwards Center, Yale University
Marblehead Architectural Heritage
Massachusetts Archives and Commonwealth Museum
New England Historic Genealogical Society
Partnership of Historic Bostons
Paul Revere Memorial Association
Pilgrim Society
Salem in 1630: Pioneer Village
The Massachuset-Ponkapoag Tribal Council
The State Library of Massachusetts
The Yale Indian Papers Project
Ancestry Organizations
General Society of Mayflower Descendants
Endecott-Endicott Family Association
National Society of Colonial Dames -- Massachusetts
International Partners
Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons
History of Independence Project
Leiden American Pilgrim Museum
University of East Anglia History Department
Participating Scholars
Kimberly Alexander, University of New Hampshire
Sue Allan, Official Historian of Scrooby Manor
Robert Allison, Suffolk University
Robert Charles Anderson, Independent Scholar
Emerson Baker, Salem State University
James Baker, Independent Scholar
Peggy Baker, Independent Scholar
Lisa T. Brooks, Amherst College
John R. D. Coffey, University of Leicester
James F. Cooper, Congregational Library & Archives
Michelle Marchetti Coughlin, Independent Scholar
Christine DeLucia, Mount Holyoke College
Julie Fisher, George Washington University
Linford Fisher, Brown University
Malcolm Gaskill, University of East Anglia
Scott Douglas Gerber, Ohio Northern University
Katherine Grandjean, Wellesley College
Kathryn Gray, Plymouth University, UK
Crawford Gribben, Queens University, Belfast
Polly Ha, University of East Anglia
David D. Hall, Harvard Divinity School
Timothy D. Hall, Howard College of Arts and Sciences
Joel Halcomb, University of East Anglia
Tom Hulme, Queens University, Belfast
Andrew Lipman, Barnard College
Heather Miyano Kopelson, University of Alabama
Eve LaPlante, independent scholar
David Lupher, University of Puget Sound
Daniel R. Mandell, Truman State University
Kevin McBride, Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center
Alice Nash, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Jean M. O'Brien, University of Minnesota
Paula Peters, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe
Mark Peterson, Yale University
Lynn Rhoads, Editor Emeritus, New England Quarterly
Sarah Rivett, Princeton University
David Silverman, George Washington University
Lori Stokes, independent scholar
Baird Tipson, Gettysburg College
Len Travers, University of Massachusetts
Mark Valeri, Washington University of St. Louis
Abram Van Engen, Washington University in St. Louis
Alden T. Vaughan, Columbia University Emeritus
Adrian C. Weimer, Providence College
Ted Widmer, Brown University
Michael P. Winship, University of Georgia
Cedric Woods, Native American Indigenous Studies Center, UMass Boston
Walt Woodward, University of Connecticut
Wendy Warren, Princeton University







