The Specter of Salem: Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-century America

by Grethen A Adams (Author)

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  2010

  $28.55

  Reveals the many ways that the Salem witch trials loomed over the American collective memory from the Revolution to the Civil War and beyond. Shedding new light on the many, varied American invocations of Salem, the author ultimately illuminates the function of collective memories in the life of a nation.