• Beyond 1620A Forum on History and Memory in Early American Studies
• Katherine Grandjean (bio) and Sarah Schuetze (bio)

What inspired us, the editors, to develop this special issue of Early American Literature were our questions about the ways the stories and conversations about 1620 have changed and are likely to change in the years ahead. As is often the case, our starting questions grew into more questions like How have America's origin stories been told and passed down? and How do the stories we tell, as scholars, resonate and affect public memory? Of course, no single voice nor argument could or should answer these complex questions. Rather, we chose to seek answers through multiple perspectives and applications. For this forum, we invited several scholars to reflect on the history and memory of early New England, and, in a larger sense, the evolving meanings of early American history and literature. Collectively, they trace the twists in popular memory around Plymouth and Wampanoag country, as well as other histories, and their contemporary impacts.

Carla Pestana tracks the shifts in how the memory of Plymouth colony was used by various promoters, over decades of American history. Lisa Blee and Jean M. O'Brien (White Earth Ojibwe) follow more recent developments, especially thanks to the work of Indigenous public intellectuals, that suggest and encourage a "decentering" of 1620. Molly O'Hagan Hardy considers the relationship of New England archives to the places they document—and what happens when that tie is severed. Drawing on her own experience as a parent and grandparent, Rachel Byington (Choctaw) considers Native children's experiences learning about Thanksgiving in public schools, the traumas associated with those educational experiences, and their connection to an achievement gap among Native students. Finally, bringing past threads of interpretation into conversation with the events of 2020, James Egan examines early American literature in relation to the death of George Floyd. [End Page 157]

katherine grandjean is an associate professor of history at Wellesley College. She is the author of American Passage: The Communications Frontier in Early New England (Harvard UP, 2015). Her essays have appeared in the William and Mary Quarterly, American Quarterly, and Early American Studies, and her work has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the American Philosophical Society, and others. She is currently working on a new book about the violent legacies of the American Revolution.

sarah schuetze is an assistant professor of English and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay. Her work on historical disease and disability has appeared in Early American Literature, Early American Studies, Common-place, and the Arizona Quarterly. In 2018, Schuetze was an NEH fellow at the American Antiquarian Society, where she researched new chapters for her book project "Calamity Howl: Fear of Illness in Early American Writing, 1620–1832."

• 1620年之后的美国早期研究历史与记忆论坛
• 凯瑟琳·格兰让（生物）和莎拉·舒泽（生物）

促使我们（这些编辑）发展此期《美国早期文学》这一特殊问题的原因是，我们对1620年的故事和对话发生了怎样的变化以及未来几年可能会发生变化的方式提出了疑问。通常情况下，我们的开始问题变成了更多问题，例如如何讲述和传承美国的起源故事？而如何将我们讲述的故事，作为学者，共鸣和影响公众的记忆中？当然，没有任何声音或论点能够或不应回答这些复杂的问题。相反，我们选择通过多种角度和应用来寻求答案。在这个论坛上，我们邀请了几位学者对新英格兰早期的历史和记忆进行反思，并从更大的意义上对美国早期历史和文学的演变含义进行反思。他们共同追踪普利茅斯和Wampanoag乡村周围大众记忆的曲折，以及其他历史及其当代影响。

卡拉·佩斯塔纳（Carla Pestana）追踪了几十年来美国历史上各种发起人如何利用普利茅斯（Plymouth）殖民地的记忆的变化。丽莎·布莱（Lisa Blee）和让·M·奥布赖恩（Jean M. O'Brien）（《白色地球》的奥吉布韦）追随了最近的事态发展，特别是由于土著公共知识分子的工作，这建议并鼓励了1620年的“偏心”。英格兰将其存档的地方存档-断开这种联系后会发生什么。Rachel Byington（乔克托（Choctaw））借鉴自己作为父母和祖父母的经历，考虑了土著儿童在公立学校学习感恩节的经历，与这些教育经历相关的创伤以及它们与土著学生之间的成就差距之间的联系。最后，[结束页157]

凯瑟琳·格兰让（Katherine Grandjean）是韦尔斯利学院（Wellesley College）历史副教授。她是《美国通道：新英格兰早期的通讯前沿》（哈佛大学出版社，2015年）的作者。她的论文发表在《威廉和玛丽季刊》，《美国季刊》和《美国早期研究》上，并获得了美国学术协会理事会，美国国家人文基金会，美国古人类学会，麻萨诸塞州历史学会的支持，美国哲学会等。她目前正在写一本关于美国革命暴力遗产的新书。

sarah schuetze是威斯康星大学绿湾分校英语，性别与妇女研究的助理教授。她在历史疾病和残疾方面的工作发表在《美国早期文学》，《美国早期研究》，《常识》和《亚利桑那季刊》上。在2018年，Schuetze成为美国古迹学会的NEH研究员，在那里她为她的著作“卡拉马How叫：对美国早期写作中的疾病的恐惧，1620–1832年”研究了新的章节。