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In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692

10 best books like In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 (Mary Beth Norton): A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft, The Gettysburg Address, Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South, The Witches: Salem, 1692, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, The Salem Witch Trials Reader

A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
AuthorEmerson W. Baker
Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuck...
The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
AuthorJill Lepore
ISBN0375702628
Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society

King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres...
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
AuthorKathleen M. Brown
ISBN0807846236
Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery in Virginia....
Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
AuthorPaul S. Boyer
ISBN0674785266
Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill.

The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion, individual and organized, which had been growing for more than a generation before...
The Gettysburg Address
AuthorAbraham Lincoln
ISBN0395883970
I would like to respond to the unkind and unfair comments that the liberal press have made concerning Mr. Trump's recent speech, which they claim was plagiarized from President Lincoln's immortal words. There is absolutely no truth in these accusations. First, however much one may admire Lincoln,...
Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South
AuthorDeborah Gray White
ISBN0393314812
Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This new edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave...
The Witches: Salem, 1692
AuthorStacy Schiff
ISBN0316200603
Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff, author of the #1 bestseller Cleopatra, provides an electrifying, fresh view of the Salem witch trials.

The panic began early in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece began to writhe and roar. It spread quickly,...
Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
AuthorLaurel Thatcher Ulrich
ISBN0679732578
This enthralling work of scholarship strips away those abstractions to reveal the hidden -- and not always stoic -- face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens -- and the considerable power -- of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her...
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
AuthorWilliam Cronon
ISBN0809016346
The book that launched environmental history now updated.

Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize

In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of...
The Salem Witch Trials Reader
AuthorFrances Hill
Against the backdrop of a Puritan theocracy threatened by change, in a population terrified not only of eternal damnation but of the earthly dangers of Indian massacres and recurrent smallpox epidemics, a small group of girls denounces a black slave and others as worshipers of Satan. Within two years,...
The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials
AuthorMarion L. Starkey
ISBN0385035098
In truth, this book is a near-failure.
Historically it sucks, and it reeks of the sense of postmodern superiority often found in books written by social scientists.
Apparently, Ms. Starkey "...applies modern psychiatric knowledge to the witchcraft hysteria," yet that psychiatric element...
The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
AuthorCarol F. Karlsen
ISBN0393317595
Confessing to "familiarity with the devils," Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her neighbors. The case of Ann Cole, who was "taken with very strange Fits," fueled an outbreak of witchcraft...
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