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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

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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