7/4/2023 0 Comments The name of war by jill leporeShe goes beyond the actual effects of the war to discuss how language, literacy, and privilege have had lasting effects on the legacy that followed it. In her book, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, Jill Lepore tells us there was another side to the story of King Philip's War. With very few exceptions our society depicts these people who actually first discovered America and without whose help the colonists would not have survived, as immoral, despicable savages who needed to be removed by killing and shipping out of the country into slavery. America being settled by courageous, white colonists who tamed a wilderness and the savages in it. Our history books continue to present our country's story in conventional patriotic terms. The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
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