Peter C. Mancall

Distinguished professor of history at the University of Southern California, Peter C. Mancall is the author of eight books including The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England; Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic; Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson: A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic; and Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, c. 1000-1680, volume one of the Oxford History of the United States.