American History: Salem Witch Trials
Books
Aronson, Marc. Witch-hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials. 133.4 ARO. New York; Atheneum, 2003. Presents information for young people about what really happened in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 when a group of girls and young women accused certain people in the village of witchcraft, leading to the executions of innocent men and women.
Breslaw, Elaine G. Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies. 921 TIT. New York; New York University Press. A biography following the life of Tituba, one of the first women accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, from her early life in Barbados to her imprisonment in the United States.
Cawthorne, Nigel. Witches: History of a Persecution. 133.4 CAW. Edison, New Jersey; Chartwell, 2006. An examination of actual witchcraft cases that portrays the witch-hunting mania that swept the Western world between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries.
Guiley, Rosemary Ellen. The Encyclopedia of Witches & Witchcraft, Second Edition. REF 133.4 GUI. New York; Facts on File, 1999. Contains over five hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about various aspects of witches and witchcraft, from ancient times to the late twentieth century; and includes biographical profiles of key figures in witchcraft.
Kallen, Stuart, A. The Salem Witch Trials. 345.744 KAL. San Diego; Lucent Books, 1999. Discusses the Salem witch trials, including their Puritan background, the accusations made, and the outcome of the social hysteria that produced the situation.
Tindall, George Brown and David E. Shi. America: A Narrative History, Fourth Edition. 973 TIN. New York; Norton & Co., 1996. Provides a short narrative of the incidents that that led to the hanging of 19 people in Salem Village in 1692.
Primary Documents
Annals of America. "Thomas Brattle: Condemnation of Witchcraft Trials," p.285. REF 973 ANN. A letter by Thomas Brattle on October 8, 1692, that was his account of the hysteria that overtook Salem Village in the witch trials.
Data Bases
EBSCO History Reference Center
Web Pages
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/
This site supported by the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia introduces the infamous Salem Witch Trials of 1692, and is designed to provide accurate general information about these events, as well as information on other aspects of the history of Danvers (formerly Salem Village), Massachusetts.