Mark Peterson

Edmund S Morgan Professor of History, Yale University

Mark Peterson is the Edmund S Morgan Professor of History at Yale University. His books include The Price of Redemption: The Spiritual Economy of Puritan New England (1997) and The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865 (2019).

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A city but not upon a hill

Entangled with, yet critical of, colonial oppression and the evils of slavery, the true history of Boston can now be told

Mark Peterson