| "Take an example from my own experience. Several years ago I was delighted to uncover proof in the British Public Record Office that an accused male "witch" in 1692 Salem, Mass., had been trading with enemy French and Indians, just as a young accuser had charged. That document confirmed my developing conviction that the Salem witch trials were linked to New England's hostile relationships with the French and Indians. But to many other scholars who previously had encountered that document, it meant no such thing."
Interesting, I once met the youngest woman dean of a college in the United States, of Hobart - William Smith College, and her thesis was on the markets of Salem, that is if I recall, set prices were not being obeyed, and practically given away based on need, that lead to the trials she researched, this is an interesting additional "construction" based on "facts". Beats the rye grain ergot poisoning model, though maybe its part of the proscription.
It seems odd to legislate history, though arguably curriculum is sort of, though one might argue the school book printers, mostly in Texas, have the upper hand, except where the books haven't been upgraded since President Nixon. I worked on the archaeology of an EPA site, it contained a former school book warehouse, that had been contaminated by cadmium and nickel and wondered what they would do with all those pallets of books. The warehouse is gone, like it flew away. Maybe they were washed off sufficiently, or the outside ones only disposed of, or just tested and redistributed. The "cold war" NIKE missile's electric batteries had once been made there.
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