Salem's centuries : new perspectives on the history of an old American city / edited by Donna A. Seger and Brad Austin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Seger, Donna A., editor.

Austin, Brad, 1972- editor.

Series:

History and the public (Philadelphia, Pa.) http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/0e487d20-6b1a-e485-7032-acd7d64bd2db

History and the public

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Salem (Mass.)--History.

Salem (Mass.).

Salem (Mass.)--Social conditions.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xiv, 319 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"A collection of scholarly essays covering the history of Salem, Massachusetts, over a period of four hundred years"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Salem's Centuries / Donna A. Seger and Brad Austin

THE FIRST CENTURY: 1626-1726. Chapter One: The Dispossession of Wenepoykin and his Kin / Emerson W. Baker

Interlude 1: Putting Salem on the Maps / Brad Austin

Chapter Two: Gallows Hill's Long Dark Shadow / Emerson W. Baker

Interlude 2: Salem's Regicide: Hugh Peter, 1598-1660 / Donna A. Seger

Chapter Three: Salem and Slavery / Bethany Jay

Interlude 3: John Higginson: A Seventeenth Century Merchant and His World / Marilyn Hayward

THE SECOND CENTURY: 1726-1826. Chapter Four: Salem's Revolution: A World Turned Upside Down / Hans Schwartz

Interlude 4: Jonathan Haraden, Salem's Revolutionary Privateer / Maria Pride and Donna A. Seger

Chapter Five: The Kinsmans of Salem and China / Dane A. Morrison and Kimberly S. Alexander

Interlude 5: Sabe and Rose / Bethany Jay and Maryann Zujewski

Chapter Six: John Remond, Citizen of Salem: The Personal and the Political in the World of an African American Entrepreneur, 1805-1874 / Donna A. Seger

Interlude 6: Mary Spencer: Shipwrecks, Sugar, and Salem / Brad Austin

THE THIRD CENTURY: 1826-1926. Chapter Seven: Salem and the Civil War / Robert W. McMicken

Interlude 7: The Civil War Service of Luis Fenollosa Emilio / Brian Valimont

Chapter Eight: Immigrant Catholicisms / Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello

Interlude 8: Salem's Black Picnic: An American Tradition / Donna A. Seger

Chapter Nine: A Salem Scholar Abroad: The Worldview of Walter G. Whitman / Michele Louro and Elizabeth McKeigue

Interlude 9: Salem Willows: Playground of the North Shore / Brad Austin

Chapter Ten: From Shrine to Source: Salem and the Colonial Revival, 1876-1934 / Donna A. Seger

Interlude 10: Suffrage Success: The Election of 1879 / Donna A. Seger

THE FOURTH CENTURY: 1926-2026. Chapter Eleven: From Fire to Wind: The Development and Redevelopment of Salem, 1914-2026 / Donna A. Seger and Brad Austin

Interlude 11: Salem's Labor History: The Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company and the 1933 Strike / Aviva Chomsky

Chapter Twelve: Salem and World War II / Brad Austin and Susan Edwards

Interlude 12: The Sixties Come to Salem State / Brad Austin and Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello

Chapter Thirteen: Situating the Self in Salem: Identity, Social Justice, and the Descendants of 1692 / Andrew Darien

Interlude 13: Salem's Changing Demographics / Aviva Chomsky

Chapter Fourteen: Salem: Allowing the Past to Haunt Us on Our Terms / Margo Shea and Theresa Giard

Epilogue: It Happened in Town House Square / Donna A. Seger

Salem / J. D. Scrimgeour.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version Salem's centuries

ISBN:

9781439925591

1439925593

9781439925607

1439925607

OCLC:

1514669239

Publisher Number:

90103628286