Forest Diplomacy: Cultures in Conflict on the Pennsylvania Frontier, 1757

by Nicolas W. Proctor

Overview

Reacting to the Past is an award-winning series of immersive role-playing games that actively engage students in their own learning. Students assume the roles of historical characters to practice critical thinking, primary source analysis, and both written and spoken argument. Reacting games are flexible enough to be used across the curriculum, from first-year general education classes and discussion sections of lecture classes to capstone experiences and honors programs.

Forest Diplomacy draws students into the colonial frontier, where Pennsylvania settlers and the Delaware Indians (or Lenâpé) are engaged in a vicious and destructive war. Using sources—including previous treaties, firsthand accounts of the war, controversies over Quaker pacifism, and various Iroquois and Lenâpé cultural texts—students engage in a Treaty Council to bring peace back to the frontier.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393673784
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	07/10/2018
Series:	Reacting to the Past
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	155
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Nicolas W. Proctor is professor of history at Simpson College. He received his Ph.D. in U.S. history from Emory University and is the author of Bathed in Blood: Hunting and Mastery in the Old South. He is also the chair of the Reacting to the Past editorial board, and the author of Reacting games on the Seven Years’ War on the Pennsylvania frontier, the Chicago Democratic Convention of 1968, Reconstruction in New Orleans, and the art of the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1889, as well as a handbook for Reacting game designers.