The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity Parenting - Motherhood in The Atlantic

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The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity Parenting - Motherhood in The AtlanticAuthor Contributor(s): Lepore, Jill Publisher: Vintage Date: 4 27 1999 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW BANCROFF PRIZE WINNER King Philip's War, the excruciating racial warcolonists against Indigenous peoplesthat erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific to "deserve the name of a war." The war's brutality