Paul Boyer

Paul S. Boyer is Merle Curti Professor of History Emeritus and former director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His many books include Purity in Print: Book Censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press; When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture; and Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft with Stephen Nissenbaum.