hot summer and early fall of 1692. this is the 325th anniversary of those events. as a history professor, i am sometimes ready sent to be involved in what s called because i like my students to think every day is historic. but it does feel right to take a moment, take a day and really think about what happened during that year. so that s what we re doing today. that s what the city of salem is going to be doing probably all summer long. before i introduce our distinguished guest who s going do open up our symposium, the mayor of salem kimberley driscoll, i want to say thanks before i forget to thank everybody. at the end while we are wrapping up this day, i m going to thank all of the presenters for their contributions. but right now i just want to thank my little committee because we have been working on this for a year. and that would include the two women downstairs who are not going to hear my thanks, beth barringer and meredith george. also from the salem award foundat
around salem that there are other trials that are related to the trial. and to some degrees that s what we re talking about this afternoon. and our sessions on witch city and keynote speech by professor foot on hill. just one thought from me before i introduce the panel, and that is that it s my sincere hope that the work of the past couple years to recognize the execution site of proctors ledge and hopefully be a new start of fresh beginning for salem to really recognize officially and formally this troubled troubled history. and i just want to say i probably should have said this this morning. but the mayor and her staff and everyone in the city of salem i think has just been incredibly supportive. when we first came forward to them and told them that we had the execution site. i didn t know what the response would be. and some of us were saying how are we going to raise money to build the memorial. and what do we do. from the moment we met with the mayor, and dom nick, e
witchcraft studies, margo burns. she s one of the leadest experts on the witch trials. one of the editors of the witch hunts. to some degree, she s probably forgotten more about the documents than i ll ever know. we asked her here today to speak specifically about those records and the amazing things you can learn from the close read of those. she s also the author of one of my favorite and most important articles on the salem witch trials that looked at the whole issue of false confessions. i strongly recommend it to you as well. so margo burns. just so you know, i have a complete different read on the coercion of false confessions than he gave you. read my article and find out. i m here today primarily to talk about the actual documents and how do we know what we know. one of the things tad was saying is quoting from here, there, and everywhere, and i m going, oh, i know where that came from, i know where that came from. which document is that? whenever i read or hear any
today. we re all here, obviously, because of bridget bishop and her battle of victims 1692, the long summer and hot fall of 1692. this is the 325th anniversary of those events. as a history professor, i am sometimes reticent to indulge in what i call anniversary history. because i like my students to think that every single day is historic. but it does feel right to take a moment, take a day, and really think about what happened during that year. so that s what we re doing today. the city of salem is going to be doing probably all summer long. before i introduce our distinguished guest who is doing to open up our symposium, the mayor of salem, kimberley driscoll, i want to say thanks before i forget to thank everybody at the end while we re wrapping up this day. i m going to thank all of the presenters for their contributions. but right now, i just want to thank my little committee because we have been working on this for a year. and that would include the two women downstair
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