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A superb collection of essays on Salems rich history and cultural life over the past four centuries.
List of contents
Salem Enshrined (Nancy Lusignan Schultz and Dane Anthony Morrison); Salem as Frontier Outpost (Emerson Baker II, Salem State College); Salem as Religious Proving Ground (Christopher White, Harvard University); Salem as Enterprise Zone (Robert Booth); Salem as Athenaeum (Matthew McKenzie, Sea Education Association); Salem as Citizen of the World (Dane Morrison); Salem as the Nation's Schoolhouse (Rebecca Noel, Harvard University); Salem as Hawthorne's Creation (Nancy Schultz); Salem as Architectural Mecca (John Goff); Salem as Global Market (Aviva Chomsky, Salem State College); Salem as Crime Scene (Margaret Press); Salem Witches as Commodities (Frances Hill); Salem's House of Seven Gables as Historic Site (Lorinda Goodwin, Boston University); Coda: Montage of Brick and Water (J. D. Scrimgeour, Salem State University)
About the author
Dane Anthony Morrison is a professor and former chair of the History Department at Salem State College. He is the author of A Praying People: Massachusett Acculturation and the Failure of the Puritan Mission, 1600-1690. Nancy Lusignan Schultz is Professor and Coordinator of Graduate Studies in English and American Studies at Salem State College. She is the author of Fire and Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834, also published by Northeastern University Press
