ePub Exploring Our Hebraic Heritage: A Christian Theology of Roots and Renewal by Marvin R. Wilson in History

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Bridging the fields of indigenous; early American; memory; and media studies; On Records illuminates the problems of communication between cultures and across generations. Andrew Newman examines several controversial episodes in the historical narrative of the Delaware (Lenape) Indians; including the stories of their primordial migration to settle a homeland spanning the Delaware and Hudson Rivers; the arrival of the Dutch and the first colonial land fraud; William Penn’s founding of Pennsylvania with a Great Treaty of Peace; and the “infamous” 1737 Pennsylvania Walking Purchase. As Newman demonstrates; the quest for ideal records—authentic; authoritative; and objective; anchored in the past yet intelligible to the present—has haunted historical actors and scholars alike. Yet without “proof;” how can we know what really happened? On Records articulates surprising connections among colonial documents; recorded oral traditions; and material and visual cultures. Its comprehensive; probing analysis of historical evidence yields a multifaceted understanding of events and reveals new insights into the divergent memories of a shared past.