Day students: Reading for week of November 8-10

We will be finishing up with witchcraft today, so if you have not read the Hoffer book and look at the witchcraft documents page, where I recently fixed some of the links. Next we will skipping over the Indian topic and moving on to "Conspiracy Nation," on the role of conspiracy theory in the coming of the American Revolution. So you should get to work on the 7th set of readings in the syllabus, to wit:

• Bailyn, Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, pp. 22-159
• The Declaration of Independence and selected documents (web)
• Gordon S. Wood, "Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style: Causality and Deceit in the Eighteenth Century" (web)
• Davis, ed., Fear of Conspiracy (reserve), pp. 23-34