Book Talk | Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, c. 1000-1680

Historian Peter C. Mancall discusses his sweeping new book Contested Continent, the newest volume in the renowned Oxford History of the United States. Spanning the period from around 1000 to 1680, Mancall traces how North America was shaped through encounters among Indigenous peoples, Europeans, and Africans across a vast Atlantic world. From Norse exploration to waves of colonization and revolt, the book reveals how struggles over land, labor, belief, and resources forged the early foundations of what would become the United States.