How a Generation of Historians Lost Sympathy for the Victims of the Salem Witch Hunt
by
Tony Fels
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
For most historians living through the fascist and communist tyrannies that culminated in World War II and the Cold War, the Salem witch trials signified the threat to truth and individual integrity posed by mass ideological movements. Work on the trials produced in this era, including Arthur Miller’s...