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Bernard Rosenthal (scholar)

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Bernard Rosenthal (born 1934) is an American scholar and historian, professor emeritus of English at Binghamton University, specializing in the history of the Salem witchcraft trials and the writings of Herman Melville. Rosenthal received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1968,[1] and was a Fulbright lecturer at Tampere University in Finland in 1996-97.[2]

Major works

  • Salem Story: Reading the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 (1993, Cambridge University Press)
  • Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt, ed. (2009, Cambridge University Press)