Cotton Mather on Witchcraft: Those Goings-On in Salem
It is with some reticence I bring up the subject of witch hunts given the tenor of recent politics, but I run across a contemporaneous account of the Salem witch trials while attending the Harry…
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Courthouses Around the World: Concepción de Ataco, El Salvador
Standing outside the gates to the small courthouse in Concepción de Ataco, El Salvador, one cannot help but think about the role of courts and how architecture and design reinforce that role, or not. Should…
Work in a One-Room Law Office
Who Was John McClellan, and Why Is His Office in Old Sturbridge Village? A desk, a fireplace, and a bookcase full of volumes of American Jurist mark the 1796 office of lawyer John McClellan of…