Examines the life of Cotton Mather, a Puritan minister and supporter of the Salem witch trials and executions, discussing how his beliefs governed his behavior, and considering how he was influenced by the times in which he lived.
Presents the life of Samuel F. Morse focusing on his childhood, education, portrait paintings, marriage, his time as professor of Fine Arts, and as inventor of the telegraph.
painting, music, literature, and the theatre in the Colonies and the United States from the Treaty of Paris to the Inauguration of George Washington, 1763-1789
