In this episode we discuss a book written by  Thomas Morton (c.1579 –1647)  an early colonist of North America and his book New English Canaan,  printed in Amsterdam in 1637, a copy of which can be found in The Free Library of Philadelphia’s  Americana Collection. Our guest is Peter C. Mancall. In his 2019 book, The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England, he  writes about the importance of Morton and The New English Canaan. Professor Mancall is a history professor at  the University of Southern California, focusing on early America, Native Americans, and the early modern Atlantic world.