The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity

Submitted by FHMaster on Fri, 01/20/2017 - 17:53

"King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war—colonists against Indians—that 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."