# Camilla Townsend
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camilla townsend (born January 29, 1965) is an American historian and Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University. She specializes in the early history of Native Americans in the United States, as well as in the history of Latin America. In 2010, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Pocahontas, Galileo, and Isaac Newton: Why We Change the Stories (1600s)
This week on This, Again, we look at three figures from the 1600s whose stories became cleaner, simpler, and easier to pass down over time:
Galileo Galilei
Pocahontas
Isaac Newton
Galileo becomes the ultimate symbol of science versus religion, even though the reality was tangled up in politi…
Who Built the History We Think We Know?
Somewhere between history...and Hollywood...something strange happened.
The real people started disappearing.
This week on Ctrl + Alt + Delusion, Nate accidentally turns a relaxing movie night into a full-blown historical identity crisis after asking one innocent question during Tombstone:
"Did tha…
Inside the Maya storyworld
The Maya have a rich and varied storyworld shaped by diverse traditions and communities. In this episode, Mallory E Matsumoto tells Emily Briffett about her recent book, The Maya Myths, which explores tales of destruction and rebirth, people made of maize dough, and journeys into the underworld – r…
Pocahontas
Pocahontas is probably the best known Native American in history. But the true story of her life has been eclipsed by a fictionalised version, played out as a romance between an intrepid English captain and a wild native princess.
So what is known about the real Pocahontas, and her life before the …
Pocahontas
Pocahontas as a moniker has been used throughout to perpetuate the mythical "Indian Princess" stereotype
But what if that wasn't her real name?
Today we explore the biography of the real Pocahontas and how her (many) names shaped public perception of both her and Native American women as a whole.…
51. Aztecs
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook talk to award-winning writer Camilla Townsend, author of the revelatory Fifth Sun. Professor Townsend used Nahuatl language sources to write an engaging history offering a new interpretation of events in Mexico centuries ago.
51. Aztecs
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook talk to award-winning writer Camilla Townsend, author of the revelatory Fifth Sun. Professor Townsend used Nahuatl language sources to write an engaging history offering a new interpretation of events in Mexico centuries ago.
Pocahontas: The True Story
Despite her being a household name, how much do we really know about Pocahontas? Where did she come from? How old was she? And what was her real relationship with the colonists?Don is joined for this episode by Camilla Townsend, a Historian of Early Native American and Latin American History at Rut…
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