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The Specter of Salem (Paperback)
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The Specter of Salem (Paperback)
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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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