They were not allowed to bathe for the duration of their captivity, nor could they write, read or get the most recent news about the war. They had no idea if their loved ones had survived the Oct. 7 ...

Join Catherine Ingrassia for a discussion of her latest book, Domestic Captivity and the British Subject, 1660–1750 in person or online on Thursday, Aug. 11, at noon, at the Virginia Museum of History ...

Economies of morality and power : reading "race" in two colonial contexts / Dana D. Nelson -- "So unstable and like mad men they were" : language and interpretation in American captivity narratives / ...

Cups of common calamity: Puritan captivity narratives as literature and history.--Rowlandson, M. The sovereignty and goodness of God.--Mather, I. Quentin Stockwell's relation of his captivity and ...