Lori Rogers-Stokes
Why Do We Still Learn about Anne Hutchinson?
Feminist? Rebel? Victim? Visionary? This puritan woman who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638 is one of the few puritans that Americans learn about in school. Who was she to her peers in Boston? Who is she to us today? Come and help answer these questions in this interactive session.
Lori Rogers-Stokes, PhD, (lori.stokes@comcast.net | LinkedIn) is an independent scholar, public historian, and contributing editor for New England’s Hidden Histories, a digital history project making thousands of pages of colonial-era Congregational church records available through digitization and transcription. She is the author of Records of Trial from Thomas Shepard’s Church in Cambridge, 1638–49: Heroic Souls (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Lori studies the history of Woodland New England, particularly the founding decades of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, when Indigenous people and English colonizers took actions that continue to shape our lives today.
