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Bresler's book, which served as the basis of the tour, describes the impact of the Salem witch trials on Boston and Harvard College and includes two self-guided tours similar to the Freedom Trail...
...witch trials are among the most famous trials ever," Bresler said. "I started to read about the trials and realized how the witchcraft hysteria had engulfed Harvard...
...William Stoughton, after whom Stoughton Hall is named, was the chief justice of the witch trials. Two treasurers of Harvard, Thomas Danforth and John Richards, acted as judges on the witchcraft court, along with their Harvard classmate Samuel Sewell...
Thomas Brattle, a classmate of Danforth and Richards, was one of the critics of the proceedings. The witch trials were finally brought to an end by the Reverend Increase Mather, a Harvard president...
...however, the court is not conducting a witch-hunt. William Green Miller, president of the Committee on American-Russian Relations, has attended the proceedings and is convinced that the aim "is not to establish the culpability of individuals but the illegitimacy of the old system...