| Web Site Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Web Site Review

Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704 <http://www.1704.deerfield.history.museum>. The Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (PVMA)/Memorial Hall Museum, Deerfield, Mass. Reviewed Dec. 15, 2004–Jan. 10, 2005.
Raid on Deerfield is a brilliantly executed and comprehensively organized electronic exhibition. The Web site begins with a brief video background on the 1704 attack by the French and three Native peoples—Kanienkehaka (Mohawk), Wendat (Huron), and Wôbanaki (Abenaki and others)—on the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts. It then invites visitors to explore each of the five cultures in 2,500-word essays supplemented by artwork, maps, charts, and audio clips that pronounce unfamiliar words. Raid on Deerfield strenuously avoids privileging the Europeans and helpfully provides the Native peoples, especially the Wendat, with a history as well as an ethnography.	1
Alternately, or subsequently, visitors may proceed through ten "scenes," which narrate the Deerfield raid and its origins and consequences from 1550 to the present. Each scene is, in effect, a superb Web site in itself. Moving one's cursor over a painting of the scene invites in-depth exploration of the people and artifacts in the scene. Maps and background "explanations" for what is occurring are also easily at hand. Every event is presented in multiple perspectives.	. . .

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