Special Issue Introduction: 1620, Interrupted

Abstract

The year 1620 has long stood as a key date, in public memory and in early American studies. But, in some ways, the mythology surrounding 1620 and Plymouth's founding is in the midst of interruption. This special issue offers approaches to reframing, rearranging, and resituating 1620, in ways that challenge Pilgrim-centric mythologies, restore Indigenous histories, and invite scholarly reflection on the early seventeenth century's long legacy, in Wampanoag country and beyond.