The Salem Witch Trials,
1692
Bibliography by Gary Shearer
Reference Librarian
Pacific Union College Library
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Alderman, Clifford Lindsey. A Cauldron of Witches: The
Story of Witchcraft. New York: Julian Messner, 1971. Chapter 12, "The
Salem Witches," pp.147-168.
BF1566 .A54
Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum. Salem Possessed: The
Social Origins of Witchcraft. New York: MJF Books, 1974,1997. 231p.
BF1576 .B6 1997
Burr, George Lincoln, editor. Narratives of the Witchcraft
Cases, 1648-1706. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1975. 465p. Reprint
of 1914 edition by Charles Scribner's Sons.
BF1573 .A2 B8 1975
Carlson, Laurie Winn. A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation
of the New England Witch Trials. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1999. 197p.
BF1576 .C37 1999
Demos, John Putnam. Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and
the Culture of Early New England. New York and Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1982. 543p.
BF1576 .D42 1982
Erikson, Kai T. Wayward Puritans: A Study in the Sociology
of Deviance. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1966. "The Witches
of Salem Village," pp.137-159.
BX9355 .E7
Hansen, Chadwick. Witchcraft at Salem. New York: George
Braziller, 1969. 252p.
BF1576 .H26 1969
Hill, Frances. A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of
the Salem Witch Trials. New York: Da Capo Press, 1997. 269p.
KFM2478.8 .W5 H55 1997
Hoffer, Peter Charles. The Devil's Disciples: Makers of
the Salem Witchcraft Trials. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
1996. 279p.
KFM2478.8 .W5 H64 1996
Hoffer, Peter Charles. The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A
Legal History. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. 165p.
KFM2478.8 .W5 H645 1997
Le Beau, Bryan F. The Story of the Salem Witch Trials.
"We Walked In Clouds and Could Not See Our Way." Upper
Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998. 308p.
KFM2478.8 .W5 L43 1998
Levin, David, editor. What Happened in Salem?: Documents
Pertaining to the 17th-Century Witchcraft Trials. New York: Twayne Publishers,
1952. 198p.
BF1575 .L4
Miller, Perry. The New England Mind: From Colony to Province.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1953. Chapter 13, "The Judgment
of the Witches," pp.191-208.
F7 .M54
Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Intellectual Life of Colonial
New England. New York: New York University Press, 1956. Pp.256,259-265.
F7 .M82 1956
Norton, Mary Beth. In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft
Crisis of 1692. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. 436p.
BF1575 .N67 2002
Roach, Marilynne K. The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-By-Day
Chronicle of a Community Under Siege. New York: Cooper Square Press,
2002. 688p.
BF1575 .R63 2002
Rosenthal, Bernard. Salem Story: Reading the Witch Trials
of 1692. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993,1995. 286p.
BF1576 .R67 1995
Starkey, Marion L. The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern
Inquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949.
310p. plus 7-page index.
BF1576 .S8 1949
Williams, Charles. Witchcraft. Cleveland and New York:
World Publishing Company, 1959. Chapter 12, "Salem," pp.276-294.
BF1566 .W65 1959
Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England: A Documentary
History, 1638-1693. Second Edition. Edited by David H. Hall. Boston:
Northeastern University Press, 1999. 378p.
BF1575 .W62 1999
Adams, Gretchen A. "The Specter of Salem in American Culture." OAH Magazine of History 17 (July 2003): 24-27. Illus.
Caporael, Linnda R. "Ergotism: The Satan Loosed in Salem?" Science 192 (2 April 1976): 21-26. "Convulsive ergotism may have been a physiological basis for the Salem witchcraft crisis in 1692."
Demos, John. "Entertaining Satan." American Heritage 29 (August/September 1978): 14-23. Illus.
Godbeer, Richard. "'How could they believe that?': Explaining to Students Why Accusations of Witchcraft Made Good Sense in Seventeenth-Century New England." OAH Magazine of History 17 (July 2003): 28-31. Illus.
Gragg, Larry. "'Under an Evil Hand'." American History Illustrated 27 (March/April 1992): 54-59. Illus.
Hall, David D. "Witch Hunting in Salem: Whey Were 19 People Hanged?" Christian History 13 (No.1,1994): 38-40. Illus.
Harley, David. "Explaining Salem: Calvinist Psychology and the Diagnosis of Possession." American Historical Review 101 (April 1996): 307-330.
Hurter, Stephanie. "Elusive or Illuminating: Using the Web to Explore the Salem Witchcraft Trials." OAH Magazine of History 17 (July 2003): 60-61.
Moore, Roberta J. "The Evil Hand in Salem." Liberty 62 (January-February 1967): 7-10.
Norton, Mary Beth. "Witchcraft in the Anglo-American Colonies." OAH Magazine of History 17 (July 2003): 5-10. Illus.
Ray, Benjamin. "Salem Witch Trials: Lesson Plan." OAH Magazine of History 17 (July 2003): 32-36. Illus.
Reis, Elizabeth. "Confess or Deny?: What's a 'Witch' to Do?" OAH Magazine of History 17 (July 2003): 11-13. Illus.
Robbins, Peggy. "The Devil in Salem." American History Illustrated 6 (December 1971): 4-9,44-48. Illus.
Rosenthal, Bernard. "Tituba." OAH Magazine of History 17 (July 2003): 48-50. Illus.
Shapiro, Laura. "The Lesson of Salem." Newsweek 120 (August 31,1992): 64-67. Sidebar by Cathleen McGuigan, "Remembering the Witch Hunt's Victims."
Watson, Bruce. "Salem's Dark Hour: Did the Devil Make Them Do It?" Smithsonian 23 (April 1992): 117-124,126,128-131,136. Illus.
17th c. Colonial New England (with special emphasis on The
Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692)
http://www.ogram.org/17thc/index.shtml
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http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm
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with Benjamin Ray
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/neh/NehSale.html
Salem Massachusetts Witch Trials
http://www.salemweb.com/guide/witches.htm
Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/salem/home.html
Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project
http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/
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http://www.salemwitchtrials.com/index.html
The Salem Witchcraft Papers: The 1692 Salem Witch Trials: Documents
and Participants
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/texts/
Witchcraft in Salem Village
http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/