Neal Salisbury
Neal Salisbury
Alumni, PhD 1972
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Biography
Alumnus, Neal Salisbury, passed away May 27, 2022. A historian of Native Americans in early modern North America, he was the Barbara Richmond 1940 Professor Emeritus of History at Smith College, where he taught from 1973 to 2014. Dr. Salisbury earned his PhD under Gary Nash in 1972 with his dissertation, “Conquest of the ‘Savage’ Puritans, Puritan Missionaries, and Indians 1620-1680.”
The Organization of American Historians (OAH) has posted a remembrance webpage about Neal Salisbury.
