This 1913 edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1851 classic of American literature is illustrated with 16 photographs of the many-gabled mansion in Salem, Massachusetts.

Young pieces together this extraordinary tale, adding new insights about the role that individual and collective memory play in shaping our understanding of history.

A study of the Puritan village and the people involved in the witch trials of 1692 provides insight into the causes and implications of this notorious episode in American history.

The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated.

A history of the Pilgrim settlement of New England challenges popular misconceptions, discussing such topics as the diseases of European origin suffered by the Wampanoag tribe, the fragile working relationship between the Pilgrims and their ...

Salem Story engages the story of the Salem witch trials by contrasting an analysis of the surviving primary documentation with the way events of 1692 have been mythologised by our culture.

Complete with gunplay, adventure, and backstabbing politicians, this is the ultimate story of a quintessential American experiment -- to live free or die, perhaps from a bear.

She tells how whites came to blame the impoverished condition of people of color on their innate inferiority, how racialization became an important component of New England antebellum nationalism, and how former slaves actively participated ...

This work offers insight into Puritan rituals, attitudes toward the natural word, and the creative tension between Puritan laity and clergy.

This book offers a collective biography of the 204 members of the Harvard College classes of 1771 through 1774, men whose lives intersected with the War for Independence and the other formative events of the founding years of the American ...