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Description of  Switching Sides: How a Generation of Historians Lost Sympathy for the Victims of the Salem Witch Hunt

Why have so many recent scholars of colonial witchcraft written sympathetically about the accusers while ignoring their victims? 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 Millers The Crucible and Marion L. Starkeys Read more