First graders engaged in an extended historical inquiry. Close readings of secondary and primary sources evoked rich class discussion. Scaffolding directed students' scrutiny of secondary sources for historical gaps; they ably detected source and intent within the primary sources. Students articulated newly constructed understandings through…

This article considers two related educational endeavors of the Massachusetts colony. The first is the colonists' efforts to pass their religious traditions to their children. The second is the effort of missionaries to spread the Christian faith to Native Americans. In both cases, the colonists wanted their children and the American Indians to…

Examines how the Puritan religious outlook influenced relationships with the Indians and the form of New England towns. The form of Puritan towns in Massachusetts reflected the European ideal of the religious utopia. Misunderstandings about the concept of property rights led to conflicts with indigenous Indian tribes. (AM)

The paper considers, in a preliminary way, the history of missionization in early Virginia and Massachusetts and makes some lag when compared with scholars who have studied the phenomenon of premise is that American historians have suffered a kind of conceptual observations on how mission history has been written. Its central European…