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Paul S. Boyer is a U.S. cultural and intellectual historian (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1966) and is Merle Curti Professor of History Emeritus and former director (1993-2001) of the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has held visiting professorships at UCLA, Northwestern University, and William & Mary; has received Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships; and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Society of American Historians, and the American Antiquarian Society. Before coming to Wisconsin in 1980, he taught at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (1967-1980).

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	Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft by Paul S. Boyer, Stephen Nissenbaum 3.74 avg rating — 1,421 ratings — published 1974 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American History: A Very Short Introduction 3.65 avg rating — 814 ratings — published 2012 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture 4.04 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age 3.83 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 1985 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People 3.53 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 1900 — 120 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People, Volume I: To 1877 by Paul S. Boyer, Joseph F. Kett, Neal Salisbury, Clifford E. Clark Jr., Karen Halttuenen 3.64 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1900 — 73 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Oxford Companion to United States History 4.02 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920 3.71 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1978 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Salem-Village Witchcraft: A Documentary Record of Local Conflict in Colonial New England by Paul S. Boyer (Editor), Stephen Nissenbaum (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1972 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Promises to Keep: The United States Since World War II 3.33 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1994 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“In a shipboard lecture en route to America, John Winthrop, Massachusetts’ first governor, called the soon-to-be-founded settlement “a city on a hill,” a model of God’s ultimate plan for humanity. Elaborated by a succession of ministers, this sense of divine purpose arose from a particular reading of sacred history: God had chosen the Puritans to create in America a New Zion, as He had once chosen the Jews in ancient times. Sometimes reformulated in secular language, this deep-seated belief in America’s unique role in history would long survive.”
― Paul S. Boyer, American History: A Very Short Introduction

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“In a 1604 pamphlet James I had denounced tobacco as “loathsome to the eye, hateful to the Nose, harmfull to the braine, [and] dangerous to the Lungs,” but to little effect.”
― Paul S. Boyer, American History: A Very Short Introduction

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“By 1800 the U.S. Indian population stood at about 600,000, a pathetic remnant of the estimated 2.2 million on the eve of European colonization.”
― Paul S. Boyer, American History: A Very Short Introduction

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