New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America

Colin G. Calloway (1953- ) is the John Kimball Jr. 1943 Professor of History and Professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. He has published 11 books on the experience of Indigenous people in early America. Recent publications include The Chiefs Now in This City: Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America (2021), The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation (2018), and The Victory with No Name: The Native American Defeat of the First American Army (2015), all with Oxford University Press.

As a synthesis of existing historical scholarship, New Worlds for All bears the mark of many authors. Calloway, however, supplies the book’s historical empathy and organizing themes.

John Lawson was an Englishman (1674-1711). In 1701, he traveled through colonial Carolina—not yet divided into North and South—and what would become Georgia. He eventually settled in present-day North Carolina, where he helped establish several settlements, including New Bern. An admirer of Native culture, Lawson was captured and killed in 1711 by members of the Tuscarora Nation. This incident both reflected and exacerbated tensions that led to the Tuscarora War.

During his travels, Lawson kept a journal that serves as an important source for New Worlds for All and for all students of colonial-era history.