{"id":5538,"date":"2026-02-20T19:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/?p=5538"},"modified":"2026-02-20T19:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:40:13","slug":"conversing-with-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/2026\/02\/20\/conversing-with-the-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversing with the Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-5538\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-5538-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-5538-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-5538-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-headline panel-first-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-headline so-widget-sow-headline-default-dcc4b020ac78-5538\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><div class=\"sow-headline-container \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"sow-headline\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHON 298 - Dr. Leslie Lindenauer\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"decoration\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"decoration-inside\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"sow-sub-headline\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tModes of Inquiry: Critical Analysis, Historical Social &amp; Cultural Analysis\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-5538-0-0-1\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Course Description:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The first half of this honors course will explore the social, political, economic, and religious context for Salem Witch Trials, with an emphasis on the construction of gender in the seventeenth century. The second half of the course will examine changing representations of the Salem Trials from the seventeenth century to the present and include field study in Salem and a group project addressing the way the town of Salem, Massachusetts tells the story of this dark period in its history. Exploration of the Salem Witch Trials serves as a powerful lens on fear, persecution, political and judicial power.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first half of this honors course will explore the social, political, economic, and religious context for Salem Witch Trials, with an emphasis on the construction of gender in the seventeenth century. The second half of the course will examine &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":456,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}