In this interdisciplinary panel, which includes a mix of historians and literary scholars, we aim to draw attention to a handful of texts that have received little attention but have potential to help us rethink prevailing narratives in the field of colonial North America. John Cotton's practical blueprint for settlement balances the ideological nature of Winthrop's Modell of Christian Charity. John Winthrop's just war pamphlet redefines Anglo-Native relations in the period between major wars. Margaret Floyd's post-revolution report to the Countess of Huntingdon calls into question categories of gender, faith, and race. Daniel Gookin's treatise against sending agents opens up the nature of imperial negotiation in the years prior to the Williamite Revolution. And Thomas Prince's awakening-era marginalia reframe Christian history and with it the politics of moderation. Copies of each text will be available to the audience in order to facilitate a more robust and interactive conversation about both historical narration and pedagogy.