Daniel R. Mandell, 1979 History, recently received Distinguished Literary Achievement Award from the Missouri Humanities Council for my six books and many articles on Native American persistence and adaptation in New England, 1600-1900. Those books include "King Philip’s War: Colonial Expansion, Native Resistance, and the End of Indian Sovereignty" (2010); "Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780-1880" (2008), which was given the Lawrence Levine Award by the Organization of American Historians for the best book on U.S. cultural history; and "Behind the Frontier: Indians in Eighteenth-Century Eastern Massachusetts" (1996).