Peter C. Mancall is Distinguished Professor; the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities; the Linda and Harlan Martens Director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute; and Professor of History, Anthropology, and Economics at the University of Southern California
His eight books include DEADLY MEDICINE: INDIANS AND ALCHOL IN EARLY AMERICA (Cornell, 1995); HAKLUYT’S PROMISE: AN ELIZABETHAN’S OBSESSION FOR AN ENGLISH AMERICA (Yale, 2007); FATAL JOURNEY: THE FINAL EXPEDITION OF HENRY HUDSON—A TALE OF MUTINY AND MURDER IN THE ARCTIC (Basic Books, 2009); NATURE AND CULTURE IN THE EARLY MODERN ATLANTIC (Penn, 2018); and THE TRIALS OF THOMAS MORTON: AN ANGLICAN LAWYER, HIS PURITAN FOES, AND THE BATTLE FOR A NEW ENGLAND (Yale, 2019).
In 2012 he was the Mellon Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania; in the 2019-2020 academic year he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University; and he was the Robert C. Ritchie Distinguished Fellow at the Huntington Library in 2024-2025.
His newest book, CONTESTED CONTINENT: THE STRUGGLE FOR NORTH AMERICA, C. 1000-1680, which is volume one of the Oxford History of the United States, was published on June 1, 2026.
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