221:', which was published in 1974, in which they outlined the social and economic context of the event, describing pre-existing village factions that had a direct correlation with the accusations of witchcraft in the village. The book was received well, lauded as a "first-rate discussion of factionalism in a seventeenth-century New England town" by T. H. Breen, but with reservations about whether the two had established a direct relationship between economic factors and the witchcraft accusations, and asking whether that was even possible. Reviewing the book in 1978, Carol Karlsen called the book "an important, imaginative book that brings new insights to study of the 1692 witchcraft outbreak in Massachusetts.", repeating her praise in 2008 when she wrote that the book "profoundly shap the way other historians, students, and general readers have understood the causes of the 1692 witch trials."
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During the writing of the book, the two collaboratively worked on creating a map of Salem
Village and had what they described as "a eureka moment" when they saw a geographic pattern emerge, between where the accusers and the accused lived in town. Over the years, the two scholars had been frustrated
184:. In the course, undergraduates undertook "actual historical research" on a single historical episode, using almost exclusively primary source materials. Senior colleagues in the department were skeptical about the approach. Two subjects were chosen the first semester the course was offered, the
268:, which had not been transcribed by the WPA. The collection was lauded upon publication as the "most valuable product of Boyer's and Nissenbaum's collaborative research in this important episode of New England history," and "a unique teaching and research tool for historians."
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offered the course
History 185, "New Approaches to the Study of History," an "experimental history course" inspired by pedagogical work of historians Stanley Katz and William R. Taylor, with whom Nissenbaum had worked during his doctoral studies at the
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in 1972, a collection of transcriptions from a variety of previously unpublished and rarely consulted primary source materials from the later seventeenth century concerning the community of Salem
Village, Massachusetts, in the period of the
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In 1991-1992, he was granted an
American Antiquarian Society-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship to pursue research on the history of Christmas in New England in relation to popular culture and the printed word.
81:'s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. The first time, in 1976-1977, was to work on two projects, one about the career of Nathaniel Hawthorne and the other to write the introduction to the
236:, the two historians decided to compile and publish transcriptions of even more primary source documents that had proven to be so valuable to them and to their students. Published in 1978 in three volumes,
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He served on the board of the
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, a fund for underwriting public projects in the humanities, from 1985-1992, and was the Chairman of the Foundation from 1987-1989.
192:, but the entire course came to be devoted exclusively to the Salem material. Students were encouraged to take research trips to see original records at the Essex County Courthouse in
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from 1998-1999. In this capacity, he gave a lecture, "Sexual
Prudery and Radicalism in the Nineteenth-Century America," on March 31, 1999, for the American Literature Department at
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As they and their students continued to amass primary sources on the subject for the course, Boyer and Nissenbaum published
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Karlsen, Carol. "Salem Revisited," The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vl. 65, No. 3 (Jul. 2008), pp. 489-494.
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Demos, John. "What Goes Around Comes Around." William and Mary Quarterly, Volume LXV, Number 3, July 2008, p. 479.
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The Salem Witchcraft Papers: Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692
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Salem-Village Witchcraft: A Documentary Record of Local Conflict in Colonial New England
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team headed by Archie N. Frost in 1938, which had only been available to scholars in
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Sex, Diet, and Debility in Jacksonian America: Sylvester Graham and Health Reform
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