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McCarthyism
McCarthyism
- Joseph McCarthy"... Within a few months of the Wheeling speech, McCarthy was a national figure. Dismissed by many in government and the press as a charlatan, he also had numerous supporters among political conservatives and a general public that was truly impressed with the communist danger to American influence and institutions. Soviet atomic power, the fall of Chiang Kai-shek in China, and the coming of the Korean War in mid-1950 all contributed to a mood of apprehension ... "
- McCarthyism / The "Red Scare""Senator Joseph R. McCarthy was a little-known junior senator from Wisconsin until February 1950 when he claimed to possess a list of 205 card-carrying Communists employed in the U.S. Department of State. From that moment Senator McCarthy became a tireless crusader against Communism in the early 1950s, a period that has been commonly referred to as the "Red Scare." ... "
- Hollywood Blacklist"The investigation of Hollywood radicals by the House on Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 and 1951 was a continuation of pressures first exerted in the late 1930s and early 1940s by the Dies Committee and State Senator Jack Tenney's California Joint Fact-finding Committee on Un-American Activities. HUAC charged that Communists had established a significant base in the dominant medium of mass culture ... "
- Anticommunism in the 1950s"Revelations that spies in the US atomic program had passed secrets to the Soviet Union set off a nationwide panic that communist spies might be infiltrating many American institutions ... "
- “Enemies from Within”: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s Accusations of Disloyalty"Wisconsin Republican Joseph R. McCarthy first won election to the Senate in 1946 during a campaign marked by much anticommunist Red-baiting. Partially in response to Republican Party victories, President Harry S. Truman tried to demonstrate his own concern about the threat of Communism by setting up a loyalty program for federal employees. He also asked the Justice Department to compile an official list of 78 subversive organizations ... "
Salem Witch Trials 1692
The Salem Witch Trials 1692
- Retelling Salem stories: gender politics and witches in American culture"This article argues that representations of American witches have always been moulded by the cultural politics of their time, and have always challenged consensus. In particular, they have been shaped by authorial positioning in the debate between American conservatives and liberals, especially in the area of gender politics. Examining closely the period from the Salem witch trials of 1692 to the present, the article identifies ways in which the empty signifier of the witch was filled with meanings by writers, dramatists and film-makers in order to bolster political positions from anti-clericalism to anti-feminism. It asks whether the image of the witch is inherently repressive or whether it has proved possible to use it in a truly radical way."
- A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials" ... In 1711, colonial authorities pardoned some of the accused and compensated their families. But it was only in July 2022 that Elizabeth Johnson Jr., the last convicted Salem “witch” whose name had yet to be cleared, was officially exonerated ... "
- Salem Witch TrialsAccess to the Library of Virginia's documentary archive and transcription project on the Salem Witch Trials.
- The Witchcraft Trials in Salem: An Account"From June through September of 1692, nineteen men and women, all having been convicted of witchcraft, were carted to Gallows Hill, a barren slope near Salem Village, for hanging. Another man of over eighty years was pressed to death under heavy stones for refusing to submit to a trial on witchcraft charges ... "
- The Salem Witch Museum"In January of 1692, nine-year-old Betty Parris and eleven-year-old Abigail Williams, the daughter and niece of Salem Village minister Reverend Samuel Parris, suddenly feel ill. Making strange, foreign sounds, huddling under furniture, and clutching their heads, the girls’ symptoms were alarming and astounding to their parents and neighbors. When neither prayer nor medicine succeeded in alleviating the girls’ agony, the worried parents turned to the only other explanation; the children were suffering from the effects of witchcraft ... "
- Chronology of Events Relating To The Salem Witchcraft TrialsA chronology of events spanning from 1629, when Salem is settled, through to 1992 (300 years after the tirals).
- Search for names mentioned in the Salem Witch Trials"Click on a box to display all the names. People are indexed according to last (familial) name. You may then click on a name to search all occurrences of that name within the Salem Witchcraft Papers, regardless of spelling."
- Important Persons in the Salem Court RecordsAccess to information about the various people involved in the trials.
- Procedure Used In The Salem Witchcraft Trials1. The afflicted person makes a complaint to the Magistrate about a suspected witch. The complaint is sometimes made through a third person. ...
- Witches Curse"The trouble in Salem began during the cold, dark Massachusetts winter, in January of 1692. Eight young girls began to take ill, begining with 9-year-old Elizabeth Parris, the daughter of Reverend Samuel Parris, and his niece, 11-year-old Abigail Williams ... "
- Five myths about the Salem witch trials"Historical truths emerge only with time, after which they are ours, particularly on Halloween, to mangle. Early on, the Salem witch trials disappeared from the record; a hush descended over 1692 for generations. “The People of Salem Do Not Like to Be Questioned in Regard to the Witchery Affair” reads a Philadelphia Inquirer headline — from 1895 ... "
Religious Aspects during this time
Religious Aspects
- The Puritans"The Puritans were members of a religious reform movement known as Puritanism that arose within the Church of England in the late 16th century. They believed the Church of England was too similar to the Roman Catholic Church and should eliminate ceremonies and practices not rooted in the Bible ... "
- Puritanism"Puritanism is a religious movement that began in England in the sixteenth century. It was an outgrowth of the Church of England, and its followers strove to cleanse the new English church of its remaining vestiges of what they called the Roman Catholic "popery." Because of the stringency of their views, members of these idealistic congregations were given the pejorative label Puritans."
- People and Ideas: Early American Groups" ... Like the Pilgrims, the Puritans were English Protestants who believed that the reforms of the Church of England did not go far enough. In their view, the liturgy was still too Catholic. Bishops lived like princes. Ecclesiastical courts were corrupt. Because the king of England was head of both church and state, the Puritans' opposition to religious authority meant they also defied the civil authority of the state ... "
- Puritanism and Witchcraft"In 17th century Massachusetts, Puritanism was a central part to the lives of countless New Englanders ... "
- Mundane Evil: An Overview of Witches and Puritans in 1630s New England"Life in early New England was dominated by piety and toil. It was an existence colonists stoically accepted; they had, after all, gone there to carve out new lives. Beneath the surface of most settlements, however, coursed dark currents of wrath ... "
- An Invitation to Satan: Puritan Culture and the Salem Witch Trials"In early 1692, the devil paid a visit to Massachusetts. While he was there, he beguiled people into his service, encouraging them to wreak havoc within their communities. A number of Puritans living within the town of Salem believed the devil was present after a group of young girls claimed to have been bewitched, setting off a morbid chain of events that became one of the most infamous and widely known witch hunts in history. These witch hunts would last for over a year and result in the deaths of around twenty people, and the detainment of hundreds more as neighbors turned on each other and suspicion gripped the town tighter than Satan himself ever could ... "
History of Salem
Salem
- Historic Salem, Massachusetts"lem’s place in American history has been ensured by the witch trials of 1692; however, its major contribution to America was as a pioneer in trade with Asia in the eighteenth century. With the huge profits from that trade, Salem shipowners and merchants built some of the grandest homes of the time, and a remarkable number of these houses have survived. Some of the most elegant houses in America’s Northeast—many of them designed by Samuel McIntire, a master of the Federal style—can be found in Salem, and Chestnut Street is architecturally one of America’s most important streets ... "
- Presenting Salem’s Spirit Through History"Salem Historical Society, founded in 2015, is dedicated to sharing Salem’s diverse and varied history."