Walter W Woodward
Biographic Data
| ID | 1106302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Walter W Woodward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Walter W |
| FAMILY NAME | Woodward |
| SIGNATURE | WOODWARD W W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
He Lived History Every Day: Christopher “Kit” Collier (1930–2020)
Miraculous Plagues: An Epidemiology of Early New England Narrative
Miraculous Plagues anachronistically projects modern epidemiological frameworks onto early New England to show how disease interpretation justified Puritan colonialism and shaped Puritan culture, community, and authority. Because epidemiology “formalizes a set of vocabularies and grammars that articulate ... why certain people get sick while others do not,” it “reinscribe[s] otherwise unremarkable behaviors as dangerous and ... extrapolate[s] thi…
Captain John Smith and the Campaign for New England: A Study in Early Modern Identity and Promotion
In print, on maps, and in person, Captain John Smith tirelessly promoted English-controlled northeast North America as a “new” England. His creative, multi-pronged campaign reveals the difficulties of raising venture capital for English Atlantic world colonization and offers an important example of early modern place branding and regional identity creation
New England's Other Witch-hunt: The Hartford Witch-hunt of the 1660s and Changing Patterns in Witchcraft Prosecution
Although many teachers focus on the Salem witch-hunt of 1692, the history of witchcraft in New England provides other important perspectives from which to examine this perennially interesting topic. Salem, as the most expansive and punitive single episode of witch-hunting in colonial New England, assuredly merits, and gets, significant attention. In the past decade, more than thirty scholarly works, a dozen educational video projects, at least ni…
The Trial of Katherine Harrison
The 1669 trial of Katherine Harrison of Wethersfield, Connecticut marked a critical moment in the history of witchcraft in New England. Because of the multiple types of witchcraft attributed to her (murder by magic, shape-shifting and spectral appearances, and foretelling the future through diabolical astrology), the sympathetic magistrates trying her case were compelled to define the legal definitions of diabolical witchcraft. This need was comp…
The Alchemy of Alchemy
Perhaps we have reached the point where it is time to reconsider yet again provincial society's character, the nature of the Revolution (even revisiting the old argument about its revolutionary character may be in order), and, as Downes has tried to do, unpack what is meant by democracy. We need to begin to explain how so much of the old survived and was repackaged to fit new realities. For if we asked a historian unfamiliar with the field to loo…
Historical Interpretation, Popular Histories, and the National Conversation
Research Article| January 01 1997 Historical Interpretation, Popular Histories, and the National Conversation Walter W. Woodward Walter W. Woodward Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1997) 19 (1): 37–39. https://doi.org/10.2307/3378979 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Perm…
The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England
Miraculous Plagues: An Epidemiology of Early New England Narrative
Miraculous Plagues anachronistically projects modern epidemiological frameworks onto early New England to show how disease interpretation justified Puritan colonialism and shaped Puritan culture, community, and authority. Because epidemiology “formalizes a set of vocabularies and grammars that articulate ... why certain people get sick while others do not,” it “reinscribe[s] otherwise unremarkable behaviors as dangerous and ... extrapolate[s] thi…
New England's Other Witch-hunt: The Hartford Witch-hunt of the 1660s and Changing Patterns in Witchcraft Prosecution
Although many teachers focus on the Salem witch-hunt of 1692, the history of witchcraft in New England provides other important perspectives from which to examine this perennially interesting topic. Salem, as the most expansive and punitive single episode of witch-hunting in colonial New England, assuredly merits, and gets, significant attention. In the past decade, more than thirty scholarly works, a dozen educational video projects, at least ni…
The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England
Historical Interpretation, Popular Histories, and the National Conversation
Research Article| January 01 1997 Historical Interpretation, Popular Histories, and the National Conversation Walter W. Woodward Walter W. Woodward Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1997) 19 (1): 37–39. https://doi.org/10.2307/3378979 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Perm…
New England's Other Witch-hunt: The Hartford Witch-hunt of the 1660s and Changing Patterns in Witchcraft Prosecution
Although many teachers focus on the Salem witch-hunt of 1692, the history of witchcraft in New England provides other important perspectives from which to examine this perennially interesting topic. Salem, as the most expansive and punitive single episode of witch-hunting in colonial New England, assuredly merits, and gets, significant attention. In the past decade, more than thirty scholarly works, a dozen educational video projects, at least ni…
The Trial of Katherine Harrison
The 1669 trial of Katherine Harrison of Wethersfield, Connecticut marked a critical moment in the history of witchcraft in New England. Because of the multiple types of witchcraft attributed to her (murder by magic, shape-shifting and spectral appearances, and foretelling the future through diabolical astrology), the sympathetic magistrates trying her case were compelled to define the legal definitions of diabolical witchcraft. This need was comp…
The Alchemy of Alchemy
Perhaps we have reached the point where it is time to reconsider yet again provincial society's character, the nature of the Revolution (even revisiting the old argument about its revolutionary character may be in order), and, as Downes has tried to do, unpack what is meant by democracy. We need to begin to explain how so much of the old survived and was repackaged to fit new realities. For if we asked a historian unfamiliar with the field to loo…
Captain John Smith and the Campaign for New England: A Study in Early Modern Identity and Promotion
In print, on maps, and in person, Captain John Smith tirelessly promoted English-controlled northeast North America as a “new” England. His creative, multi-pronged campaign reveals the difficulties of raising venture capital for English Atlantic world colonization and offers an important example of early modern place branding and regional identity creation
Miraculous Plagues: An Epidemiology of Early New England Narrative
Miraculous Plagues anachronistically projects modern epidemiological frameworks onto early New England to show how disease interpretation justified Puritan colonialism and shaped Puritan culture, community, and authority. Because epidemiology “formalizes a set of vocabularies and grammars that articulate ... why certain people get sick while others do not,” it “reinscribe[s] otherwise unremarkable behaviors as dangerous and ... extrapolate[s] thi…
He Lived History Every Day: Christopher “Kit” Collier (1930–2020)
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