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David Goss

David Goss

Professor in the Practice of History

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

  1. B.A. Gordon College
  2. M.A. Tufts University
  3. Ph.D. Candidate, Boston University

Bio

Teaching Fields:
Museum Studies, Public History, Early American Maritime and Intellectual

Research Fields:
Museum Studies, New England Puritanism, American Revolution, New England Maritime

Selected Publications:
The Salem Witch Trials: A Reference Guide. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2008).

Salem: Cornerstones of a Historic City. (Commonwealth Editions, 1999).

Treasures of a Seaport Town. (Beverly Historical Society and Museum, 1998).

Salem: Maritime Salem in the Age of Sail. U. S. National Park Service, 1987. (AAM Publication Award)

Massachusetts Officers and Soldiers in the French and Indian Wars: 1755-1756, Society of Colonial Wars and New England Historic and Genealogic Society, 1985.

"Heritage Plaza East: Salem's Experiment in Urban Renewal," Essex Institute Historical Collections, October, 1983.