Amanda’s Reviews > Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places > Status Update

Love hearing the ghost stories about plantations!

Above all, we fail to apply the lessons we've supposedly learned from 1692, for by no means was this the last time in American history when a powerless minority was scapegoated, persecuted, and killed by an ignorant mass. We recall the events of Salem, but we can't quite remember why they matter.

“Houses outlast us; they contain more than one generations worth of stories. They can become, in turn, repositories of family histories, for both good and ill. And though ghosts may be specific to the places they haunt, they can reflect larger preoccupations and concerns for their time and place, echoing anxieties of a community and its people.”