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Salem: Place, Myth, and Memory
Edited by Dane Anthony Morrison and Nancy Lusignan Schultz
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How is a sense of place created, imagined, and reinterpreted over
time? That is the intriguing question addressed in this comprehensive
look at the 400-year, multi-layered history of Salem, Massachusetts,
and the experiences of fourteen generations of people who lived
in a place forever enshrined, indeed mythologized, in the public
imagination by the horrific witch trials and executions of 1692
and 1693.
By exploring the rich textures of Salem as a local, national, and
global entity from its settling in 1626 to the present, this highly
original, cohesive, and teachable collection illuminates how people
influence a place and how a place influences its people.
CHAPTERS
- Salem as Frontier Outpost
EMERSON W. BAKER II
- Salem as Religious Proving Ground
CHRISTOPHER WHITE
- Salem as Enterprise Zone, 1783-1786
ROBERT BOOTH
- Salem as Athenaeum
MATTHEW G. MCKENZIE
- Salem as Citizen of the World
DANE ANTHONY MORRISON
- Salem as the Nation's Schoolhouse
REBECCA R. NOEL
- Salem as Hawthorne's Creation
NANCY LUSIGNAN SCHULTZ
- Salem as Architectural Mecca
JOHN V. GOFF
- Salem as Global City, 1850-2004
AVIVA CHOMSKY
- Salem as Crime Scene
MARGARET PRESS
- Salem as Witch City
FRANCES HILL
- Salem's House of Seven Gables as Historic Site
LORINDA B. R. GOODWIN
- Coda: Montage of Brick and Water
J. D. SCRIMGEOUR
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IDS 333-763, Topics in American Studies
Instructors: Dane Morrison, Ph. D., Nancy Schultz,
Ph. D.
Organized around the book Salem: Place, Myth, and Memory,
this course challenges students to reconsider the notion of place,
including the ways in which the local intersects with the national
and the global. Throughout the course, we return to a set of essential
American Studies questions: What makes a place distinctive or unique?
What is the role of place in the American experience, and in shaping
American culture? --- View
the syllabus (pdf)
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