Participant Info
- First Name
- Lori
- Last Name
- Rogers-Stokes
- Country
- United States
- State
- MA Massachusetts
- lori.stokes@comcast.net
- Affiliation
- NEHH
- Website URL
- loristokes.com
- Keywords
- Indigenous nations, Dawnland, Puritan New England, Puritan women, Early America
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I’m an independent scholar, public historian, and contributing editor for New England’s Hidden Histories, a digital history project making thousands of pages of colonial-era New England manuscript church records available through digitization and transcription. I’m also the author of Records of Trial from Thomas Shepard’s Church in Cambridge, 1638-49: Heroic Souls (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). I study the history of Dawnland New England, particularly the founding decades of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, during which time the Indigenous people of the Dawnland began to preserve and protect their history and identity as English puritans created New England, and forms of church and state that would shape American history for better or worse for centuries to come.
I’m currently working on a new book project: Indigenous Measures of Puritan Churches in Dawnland New England.
See my author/speaker site at https://www.loristokes.com
- Recent Publications
Records of Trial from Thomas Shepard’s Church in Cambridge, 1638-1649: Heroic Souls – https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783030508449
“The discovery of a Shepard-era record for First Church Cambridge: Nathaniel Sparhawk’s Deacon’s Book, 1638-1646,” NEHH, Spring 2019 – http://www.congregationallibrary.org/nehh/series1/CambridgeMAFirst
“Making Sense of the Shepard Conversion Narratives”, The New England Quarterly,March 2016
- Media Coverage
- "Heroic Souls", History Camp Boston 2019 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGlLMX6-9vk CSPAN "Myths about the New England Puritans", https://www.c-span.org/video/?414926-1/myths-england-puritans
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- U.S. and England
- Expertise by Geography
- British Isles, England, North America, United Kingdom, United States, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- 17th century, Early Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- American Founding Era, Colonialism, Gender, Indigenous Peoples, Libraries & Archives, Literary History, Public History, Race, Rebellion & Revolution, Religion, Sexuality, Women
