Introduction : Salem enshrined : myth, memory, and the power of place / Nancy Lusignan Schultz, Dane Anthony Morrison -- Salem as frontier outpost / Emerson W. Baker II -- Salem as religious proving ground / Christopher White -- Salem as enterprise zone, 1783-1786 / Robert Booth -- Salem as athenaeum / Matthew G. McKenzie -- Salem as citizen of the world / Dane Anthony Morrison -- Salem as the nation's schoolhouse / Rebecca R. Noel -- Salem as Hawthorne's creation / Nancy Lusignan Schultz -- Salem as architectural mecca / John V. Goff -- Salem as a global city, 1850-2004 / Aviva Chomsky -- Salem as crime scene / Margaret Press -- Salem as witch city / Frances Hill -- Salem's House of the Seven Gables as historic site / Lorinda B.R. Goodwin -- Coda : montage of brick and water / J.D. Scrimgeour.
