Reading: Davidson and Lytle, “The Visible and Invisible Worlds of Salem”

Paper Prompts:
1) Which interpretation of Salem did you find the most convincing and why? Make sure to explain why you found some reasons more convincing than others.
2) Early in the reading, the authors talk about choosing the scale/scope of a project. Why is it important to consider scale in historical investigation?
3) How do historians get at the internal human thoughts of those who lived long ago? In other words, how do they get at their internal and personal “mental worlds”?

Note: Focus your paper on answering one of the prompts. Do not answer all of the prompts.