Introduction: Salem's Centuries / Donna A. Seger and Brad Austin
THE FIRST CENTURY: 1626-1726. Chapter One: The Dispossession of Wenepoykin and his Kin / Emerson W. Baker
Interlude 1: Putting Salem on the Maps / Brad Austin
Chapter Two: Gallows Hill's Long Dark Shadow / Emerson W. Baker
Interlude 2: Salem's Regicide: Hugh Peter, 1598-1660 / Donna A. Seger
Chapter Three: Salem and Slavery / Bethany Jay
Interlude 3: John Higginson: A Seventeenth Century Merchant and His World / Marilyn Hayward
THE SECOND CENTURY: 1726-1826. Chapter Four: Salem's Revolution: A World Turned Upside Down / Hans Schwartz
Interlude 4: Jonathan Haraden, Salem's Revolutionary Privateer / Maria Pride and Donna A. Seger
Chapter Five: The Kinsmans of Salem and China / Dane A. Morrison and Kimberly S. Alexander
Interlude 5: Sabe and Rose / Bethany Jay and Maryann Zujewski
Chapter Six: John Remond, Citizen of Salem: The Personal and the Political in the World of an African American Entrepreneur, 1805-1874 / Donna A. Seger
Interlude 6: Mary Spencer: Shipwrecks, Sugar, and Salem / Brad Austin
THE THIRD CENTURY: 1826-1926. Chapter Seven: Salem and the Civil War / Robert W. McMicken
Interlude 7: The Civil War Service of Luis Fenollosa Emilio / Brian Valimont
Chapter Eight: Immigrant Catholicisms / Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello
Interlude 8: Salem's Black Picnic: An American Tradition / Donna A. Seger
Chapter Nine: A Salem Scholar Abroad: The Worldview of Walter G. Whitman / Michele Louro and Elizabeth McKeigue
Interlude 9: Salem Willows: Playground of the North Shore / Brad Austin
Chapter Ten: From Shrine to Source: Salem and the Colonial Revival, 1876-1934 / Donna A. Seger
Interlude 10: Suffrage Success: The Election of 1879 / Donna A. Seger
THE FOURTH CENTURY: 1926-2026. Chapter Eleven: From Fire to Wind: The Development and Redevelopment of Salem, 1914-2026 / Donna A. Seger and Brad Austin
Interlude 11: Salem's Labor History: The Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company and the 1933 Strike / Aviva Chomsky
Chapter Twelve: Salem and World War II / Brad Austin and Susan Edwards
Interlude 12: The Sixties Come to Salem State / Brad Austin and Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello
Chapter Thirteen: Situating the Self in Salem: Identity, Social Justice, and the Descendants of 1692 / Andrew Darien
Interlude 13: Salem's Changing Demographics / Aviva Chomsky
Chapter Fourteen: Salem: Allowing the Past to Haunt Us on Our Terms / Margo Shea and Theresa Giard
Epilogue: It Happened in Town House Square / Donna A. Seger
Salem / J. D. Scrimgeour.
