The specter of Salem : remembering the witch trials in nineteenth-century America /
Gretchen A. Adams.
- xiii, 223 pages ; 23 cm
Originally published: 2008.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Mysteries, memories, and metaphors: from event to memory -- Memory and nation: the early republic -- Not to hell but to Salem: antebellum religious crises -- Witch-burners: the politics of sectionalism -- Witch-hunters: the era of Civil War and Reconstruction -- Epilogue: The crucible of memory.