I am a historian of early America with specializations in Native American history, the history of slavery, American religion, and the Atlantic world. Feel free to browse some of my recent works.
Books and Digital Projects
Liveright/WW Norton
April 28, 2026
“An indispensable book, as intellectually provocative as it is emotionally wrenching.”
―Greg Grandin¸ author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The End of the Myth
Pickwick, 2024
“This is an essential guide to Williams and to the contradictions and cruelties of the seventeenth-century English colonial world.”
―Tisa Wenger, professor of American religious history, Yale Divinity School
Oxford University Press, 2012
“[A] fine exemplar of the maturation of the ‘new Indian history,’ which places Native peoples at the center of the American past.”
―Nick Griffiths, William and Mary Quarterly
Baylor University Press, 2014
“Decoding Roger Williams revels in the ingenuity of American historical scholarship and renews Williams’ fame as early New England’s most intriguing and challenging figure.”
―Jon Butler, Yale University
Founded in 2015 and launched in 2025, this tribally collaborative project provides a database of more than 7,000 people related to Native servitude and slavery in the Americas.
The site also contains a host of other information an resources, including interviews with tribal members, artwork, music, an interactive map, a timeline, stories from the archives, essays, and curricular materials.
This is an active project. I serve as the PI and work with a team of Native advisors, specialists from the Brown Center for Digital Scholarship, project staff, and a team of volunteer Research Assistants.
Explore the website or contact me to get involved.
Linford D. Fisher 