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Stephen Nissenbaum is professor of history emeritus at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and adjunct professor of history at the University of Vermont. His books include The Battle for Christmas; Sex, Diet, and Debility in Jacksonian America, and Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft (coauthored with Paul Boyer). Most recently, he has been writing and speaking about Handel’s oratorio Messiah.