Resources
Resources
Educators
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- PBS Learning Media | Bacon’s Rebellion Class and Race Interactive
- KidsKonnect | Bacon’s Rebellion Facts & Worksheets
- National Council for History Education | Bacon’s Rebellion: Race, Land, and Rebellion in the Colonial South
- Facing History and Ourselves | Inventing Black and White
- New Visions for Public Schools | Bacon’s Rebellion
- Yale Teachers Institute | Adding Race Consciousness to the Slavery Curriculum
History
Tribal Partners
- “The hidden story of Native tribes who outsmarted Bacon’s Rebellion”
By Gregory S. Schneider
The Washington Post, 2024 - Mapping the Dragon: An Indigenous History of Bacon’s Rebellion
By Megan D. Postemski, Allyson Gray, Julia A. King, Edward D. Ragan, James D. Rice, G. Anne Richardson, Kendall Stevens, and Jeffrey W. Wright
National Park Service, American Battlefield Protection Program, 2025 - “Cockacoeske’s Rebellion: Nathaniel Bacon, Indigenous Slavery, and Sovereignty in Early Virginia”
By Hayley Negrin
William & Mary Quarterly, 2023 - Native Knowledge 360: Life Along the River
The Pamunkey Indian Tribe of Virginia
Smithsonian Institution - Characterization of the Water Resources of the Pamunkey River Watershed in Virginia—A Review of Water Science, Management, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge
U.S. Geological Survey, 2024 - America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2025
Pamunkey Indian Reservation, King William, Virginia
National Trust for Historic Preservation - Indigenous Cultural Landscape Studies
National Park Service - Knowing the River, Working the Land, and Digging for Clay: Pamunkey Indian Subsistence Practices and the Market Economy 1800-1900
Ashley Atkins Spivey
Ph.D. Dissertation
College of William and Mary, 2017 - Pamunkey Pottery and Cultural Persistence
Ashley Atkins Spivey
Master’s Thesis
College of William and Mary, 2009 - Pamunkey Indian Tribe Website
- Pamunkey Museum Facebook Page
- Pamunkey Indian Tribe StoryMap
- Rappahannock Indian Tribe Virtual Museum Exhibits
- Rappahannock Indian Tribe Website
Publications

Tales from a Revolution: Bacon’s Rebellion and the Transformation of Early America.
By James D. Rice, Ph.D.
2012, Oxford University Press, New York.
Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America
By Matthew Kruer
2022, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
Lecture Videos

Tales From a Revolution: Bacon’s Rebellion and the Transformation of Early America
James D. Rice | April 15th 2025