The Salem Witch Trials, 1692
Bibliography by Gary Shearer
Reference Librarian
Pacific Union College Library

Updated 06-25-04

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Books

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

 

Periodicals

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.

 

Web URLs

17th c. Colonial New England (with special emphasis on The Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692)
http://www.ogram.org/17thc/index.shtml

Famous American Trials: Salem Witchcraft Trials 1692
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm

An Internet Witch-Hunt: Digitizing Salem Village: A Conversation 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/

Salem Witch Trials Page
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/