Tony Fels is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Switching Sides: How a Generation of Historians Lost Sympathy for the Victims of the Salem Witch Hunt (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018) and earlier scholarly articles on the religious history of the Freemason fraternity. He has also published short essays and op-eds elucidating current political controversies through an understanding of history. Examples may be found at http://tonyfels.com. He now resides in the Philadelphia area.