The Salem Witch Trials Reader
10 best books like The Salem Witch Trials Reader (Frances Hill): A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience, The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony, King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict, The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-By-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft, Sunk Without a Sound: The Tragic Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750, Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts, I'll Pass For Your Comrade: Women Soldiers in the Civil War, She's a Witch Girl
A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
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 Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony
| Author | James Deetz |
| ISBN | 0385721536 |
James Deetz, who until his death was a leading expert on the archaeology of Plymouth Colony, and his wife, cultural historian Patricia Scott Deetz, give a realistic and fascinating picture of life in colonial America as they recount, in colorful detail, the true story of Plymouth Colony.
The...
King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict
| Author | Eric B. Schultz |
| ISBN | 0881504831 |
At the Pilgrim's first Thanksgiving in 1621, chief among the honored guests was Massasoit, the sachem of the Wampanoag. Half a century later, Massasoit's son, King Philip, had been shot at the end of a bloody two-year conflict. The war began as a skirmish between the Wampanoag and the English on the frontier...
| Author | Marilynne K. Roach |
| ISBN | 1589791320 |
Based on twenty-seven years of original archival research, including the discovery of previously unknown documents, this day-by-day narrative of the hysteria that swept through Salem Village in 1692 and 1693 reveals new connections behind the events, and shows how rapidly a community can descend...
| Author | Paul S. Boyer |
| ISBN | 0674785266 |
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...
Sunk Without a Sound: The Tragic Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde
| Author | Brad Dimock |
| ISBN | 1892327988 |
On November 18, 1928, Glen and Bessie Hyde launched on the final leg of their honeymoon voyage through Grand Canyon. Their cumbersome wooden sweep scow was found upright and fully loaded three weeks later, but despite exhaustive searches, Glen and Bessie had vanished without a trace. Or had they? In...
Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
| Author | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
| ISBN | 0679732578 |
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...
| Author | Anne Llewellyn Barstow |
| ISBN | 0062510363 |
Witches have contradictory reputations: they are either feared, ugly, demonic, broom-flying old hags; or they are “cool” like Samantha Stephens or Sabrina. How much do we REALLY know about witches? Anne L. Barstow goes beyond the typical lore to explain the mass panic and witch hunts which plagued...
I'll Pass For Your Comrade: Women Soldiers in the Civil War
| Author | Anita Silvey |
| ISBN | 0618574913 |
The Civil War has been studied, written about, even sun about for generations. Most people know that it was a conflict between North and South, Unionists and rebels, blue and gray. We recognize the names of Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, and Robert E. Lee. Many people know about Clara Barton, the...
Prudence Stewart is FINALLY getting her witch on at Agatha's Day School. Sadly, her love life isn't quite so charmed. Boy trouble is lurking, big-time:
• First, there's Angelo, Pru's adorable crush-next-door. When he shows up at Agatha's, it spells T-R-O-U-B-L-E for Pru. Especially when...
| Author | Melissa Katsoulis |
| ISBN | 1602397945 |
The ultimate reader’s-guide to the works that fooled publishers, readers, and critics the world over. When Dionysus the Renegade faked a Sophocles text in 400 BC (cunningly inserting the acrostic “Heraclides is ignorant of letters”) to humiliate an academic rival, he paved the way for two...
| Author | Mary Beth Norton |
| ISBN | 0375706909 |
Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in this startlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study.
In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were living in fear, and not solely of satanic afflictions. Horrifyingly violent Indian...
Judge Sewall's Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of an American Conscience
| Author | Richard Francis |
| ISBN | 0007163622 |
The Salem witch hunt of 1692 has entered our vocabulary as the very essence of injustice. Biographer and novelist Richard Francis looks at the familiar drama with fresh eyes, grasping the true significance of this cataclysm through the personal story of Samuel Sewall, New England Puritan, Salem trial...
Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall
| Author | Eve LaPlante |
| ISBN | 0060786612 |
In 1692 Puritan Samuel Sewall sent twenty people to their deaths on trumped-up witchcraft charges. The nefarious witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts represent a low point of American history, made famous in works by Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne (himself a descendant of one of the judges), and...
The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials
| Author | Marion L. Starkey |
| ISBN | 0385035098 |
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...
Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England
| Author | Elizabeth Reis |
| ISBN | 0801486114 |
In her analysis of the cultural construction of gender in early America, Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection of Puritan theology, Puritan evaluations of womanhood, and the Salem witchcraft episodes. She finds in those intersections the basis for understanding why women were accused of witchcraft...
Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
| Author | John Putnam Demos |
| ISBN | 0195033787 |
Possibly my favorite thing about this book is Demos's confession, in his preface, that he discovered in the course of researching this book that, yes, he is descended from those Putnams. But this is because trivia and the malice of serendipity fascinate and delight me.
This is an excellent,...
The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
| Author | Carol F. Karlsen |
| ISBN | 0393317595 |
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...
Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692
| Author | Richard Godbeer |
| ISBN | 0195161300 |
The Salem witch hunt of 1692 is among the most infamous events in early American history; however, it was not the only such episode to occur in New England that year. Escaping Salem reconstructs the "other witch hunt" of 1692 that took place in Stamford, Connecticut. Concise and accessible, the book...
| Author | Chadwick Hansen |
| ISBN | 0807611379 |
This book is very dated, sometimes horrifically so*, but it has a couple of very valuable points to make. Hansen describes specifically and at length the correlations between the afflicted girls of Salem and the nineteenth century hysterics of Charcot and Janet; while his use of the diagnosis of hysteria...
Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials
| Author | Marc Aronson |
| ISBN | 1416903151 |
Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. In a plain meetinghouse a woman stands before her judges. The accusers, girls and young women, are fervent and overexcited. The accused is a poor, unpopular woman who had her first child before she was married. As the trial proceeds the girls begin to wail, tear their clothing,...
Death in Salem: The Private Lives behind the 1692 Witch Hunt
| Author | Diane E. Foulds |
| ISBN | 0762759097 |
An interest take on the trials. A few pages are given on every player, rather than going in a narrative fashion, which is a nice alternative. The mini-biographies are divided into the following groups: the Accusers, the Victims, the Clergy, the Judges, and the Elites.
I aspire to be as petty...
