In "The Specter of Salem", Gretchen A. Adams reveals the many ways that the Salem witch trials loomed over the American collective memory from the Revolution to the Civil War and beyond. Schoolbooks in the 1790s, for example, evoked the episode to demonstrate the new nation's progress from a disorderly and brutal past to a rational present, while critics of new religious movements in the 1830s cast them as a return to Salem-era fanaticism, and during the Civil War southerners evoked witch burning to criticize Union tactics. Shedding new light on the many, varied American invocations of Salem, Adams ultimately illuminates the function of collective memories in the life of a nation.
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"An imaginative and thoughtful examination of the process by means of which memory is made and remade. . . . Thought-provoking, informative, and convincingly presented, The Specter of Salem is an often spellbinding mix of politics, cultural history, and public historiography."—James M. Lindgren, New England Quarterly
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"An important major work within the scholarly literature on the witch-hunt, linking the hysteria of that period to the evolving history of the American nation."
"An important major work within the scholarly literature on the witch-hunt, linking the hysteria of that period to the evolving history of the American nation."
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Gretchen A. Adams is associate professor of history at Texas Tech University.
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New England, United States, Massachusetts Bay Colony, New York, Cotton Mather, Civil War, Robert Calef, Latter-day Saints, Roman Catholics, Samuel Goodrich, Samuel Parris, Roman Catholicism, Noah Webster, Puritan Salem, Benedict Arnold, Joseph Smith, Southern Literary Messenger, General Court, The House of the Seven Gables, Sarah Good, Charles Upham, Emma Willard, Prophet Matthias, Rebecca Nurse, Governor Phips Browse Sample Pages:
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