RICHARD GODBEER(Ph.D., Brandeis University) is professor of history at the University of Miami. Godbeer's research and teaching interests center on colonial and revolutionary America, with an emphasis on religious culture, gender studies, and the history of sexuality. His first book,The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England(1992) won the American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch Award for the Best First Book. He is also the author ofSexual Revolution in Early America(2002),Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692(2004), andThe Overflowing of Friendship: Love Between Men and the Creation of the American Republic(2009).