The Specter of Salem: Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America
()
About this ebook
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.
“Imaginative and thoughtful. . . . Thought-provoking, informative, and convincingly presented, The Specter of Salem is an often spellbinding mix of politics, cultural history, and public historiography.”— New England Quarterly
“This well-researched book, forgoing the usual heft of scholarly studies, is not another interpretation of the Salem trials, but an important major work within the scholarly literature on the witch-hunt, linking the hysteria of the period to the evolving history of the American nation. A required acquisition for academic libraries.”—Choice, Outstanding Academic Title 2009
Related to The Specter of Salem
Related ebooks
Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Narratives of the New England Witchcraft Cases Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Salem Witchcraft Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Inquiry into the Salem Witch Trials Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConnecticut Witch Trials: The First Panic in the New World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Salem Witchcraft (Complete Edition): The Real History & Background of the Greatest Witch Hunt Trials in America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPossessed by the Devil: The Real History of the Islandmagee Witches and Ireland’s Only Mass Witchcraft Trial Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSalem Witchcraft (Vol. 1&2): Including the History of the Conflicting Opinions on Witchcraft and Magic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLies in the Dust: A Tale of Remorse from the Salem Witch Trials Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Witch Hunt: History of Persecution Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWitchcraft in Colonial Virginia Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Accused of Witchcraft in New York Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Legends: The Salem Witch Trials Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lies: Ann Putnam Jr.'s Recounting of the Salem Witch Trials Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSalem Witchcraft: The History & the Myth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lancashire witches: Histories and stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut: Historical Account of Witch Trials in Early Modern Period: 1647-1697 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSatan and Salem: The Witch-Hunt Crisis of 1692 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWitches of Pennsylvania: Occult History & Lore Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Detestable and Wicked Arts: New England and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Atlantic World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Popular History of Witchcraft Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Salem Witchcraft (Vol. I&II): The Real History & Background of the Greatest Witch Hunt Trials in America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmerican Witches: A Broomstick Tour through Four Centuries Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
United States History For You
A People's History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/51776 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Library Book Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer: An Edgar Award Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln: A Nutty Story About Edwin Booth and Boston Corbett Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Reset: And the War for the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The White Album: Essays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Twelve Years a Slave (Illustrated) (Two Pence books) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fifties Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Specter of Salem
0 ratings0 reviews