Stairway to Empire

Stairway to Empire

Author: Patrick McGreevy

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2009-04-09

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1438425279

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The story of the Erie Canal’s completion and its place in the larger narrative of American modernity and progress.


The Specter of Salem

The Specter of Salem

Author: Gretchen A. Adams

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2010-11

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1459605829

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The 1950s drama 'The Crucible' underscored the link between contemporary political investigations and the 1692 Salem witch trials. This book reveals that this 20th-century cultural movement followed a long history of appeals to American memories of the witch trials.