History

It is now nearly forty years since I assisted my father, the late Charles W. Upham, in the preparation of his work on Salem Village and the Witchcraft tragedy of 1692, by collecting what information could be obtained from the records as to the people and their homes in that locality. In doing this I was enabled to construct a map showing the bounds of the grants and farms at that time.

The history of Masons in securing Independence for the Colonies of America was far more involved than the history books reveal, from the Masons throwing the tea off the boat, to the Constitution and more.

Peyote, the mystical 'weed' of the American Indians in the Southwest. This is an early observation by the US government of the Indian usage of this 'path to the spiritual.'

Lectures on the artistic Sappho, history's most famous Lesbian.

This history of woodworking hand tools from the 17th to the 20th century is one of a very gradual evolution of tools through generations of craftsmen. As a result, the sources of changes in design are almost impossible to ascertain. Published sources, moreover, have been concerned primarily with the object shaped by the tool rather than the tool itself. The resulting scarcity of information is somewhat compensated for by collections in museums and restorations.

The following remains of Chaldean theology are not only venerable for their antiquity, but inestimably valuable for the unequalled sublimity of the doctrines they contain.

A short study of Ancient Greek homosexuality, pedastery, and the third sex.