The First Frontier

Any book that challenges the idea of frontier, and the traditional idea of the “American Western Frontier,” I am drawn to because I believe it gives us all a greater perspective and context to the understanding of the European settlement of North America. Andrew Lipman’s The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast from Yale University Press is a brilliant reimagining of the English and Dutch settlements in New England and New York, and the role that the Atlantic