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Author | : Stacy Schiff |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2015-10-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0316200611 |
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic. As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, THE WITCHES is Stacy Schiff's account of this fantastical story-the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians.
Author | : Marilynne K. Roach |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2013-09-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0306822342 |
The story of the Salem Witch Trials told through the lives of six women Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of the trials, beyond the twenty who were executed and the five who perished in prison, 207 individuals had been accused, 74 had been "afflicted," 32 had officially accused their fellow neighbors, and 255 ordinary people had been inexorably drawn into that ruinous and murderous vortex, and this doesn't include the religious, judicial, and governmental leaders. All this adds up to what the Rev. Cotton Mather called "a desolation of names." The individuals involved are too often reduced to stock characters and stereotypes when accuracy is sacrificed to indignation. And although the flood of names and detail in the history of an extraordinary event like the Salem witch trials can swamp the individual lives involved, individuals still deserve to be remembered and, in remembering specific lives, modern readers can benefit from such historical intimacy. By examining the lives of six specific women, Marilynne Roach shows readers what it was like to be present throughout this horrific time and how it was impossible to live through it unchanged.
Author | : Emerson W. Baker |
Publisher | : Pivotal Moments in American Hi |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019989034X |
Presents an historical analysis of the Salem witch trials, examining the factors that may have led to the mass hysteria, including a possible occurrence of ergot poisoning, a frontier war in Maine, and local political rivalries.
Author | : Cotton Mather |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1862 |
Genre | : Crime |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Marilynne K. Roach |
Publisher | : Taylor Trade Publications |
Total Pages | : 758 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781589791329 |
The Salem Witch Trials is based on over twenty-five years of archival research--including the author's discovery of previously unknown documents--newly found cases and court records. From January 1692 to January 1697 this history unfolds a nearly day-by-day narrative of the crisis as the citizens of New England experienced it.
Author | : Rosalyn Schanzer |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Good and evil |
ISBN | : 1426308698 |
Tells the story of the victims, the accused witches, and the scheming officials that turned a mysterious illness into a witch hunt.
Author | : Nicole Cooley |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2004-04-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780807129463 |
Twenty individuals were executed and more than 150 imprisoned. The historical body of evidence that remains from the Salem witch trials of 1692 touched the hands, mind, and imagination of poet Nicole Cooley, compelling her to seek entry to an inaccessible past of lies. The Afflicted Girls, so named after the young women who claimed to be victims of witchcraft, spans the centuries to give voice to those both audible and silent on history’s pages—accusers and accused of several kinds: wife and husband, servant and master, congregant and minister, and, not least, bewitched and witch. Piercing, enchanting, Cooley’s poems form a remarkable narrative, one that displays the enormous cultural power the Salem witch trials retain in twenty-first-century America.
Author | : Don Nardo |
Publisher | : Greenhaven Publishing LLC |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 2016-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1534560394 |
Mass hysteria in the late 17th century led to trials of people suspected to be witches in Salem, Massachusetts. Anyone could be accused of causing mysterious maladies or unfortunate occurrences, such as the death of cattle. Readers discover important facts and captivating details about this fascinating time in American history. The dangers of leveling accusations without proof and succumbing to panic are discussed in this engaging text, which is supplemented with a fact-filled timeline, full-color photographs, and primary sources.
Author | : Paul Boyer |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1977-12-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Works Progress Administration created in 1935; name changed in 1939 to Work Projects Administration.
Author | : Arthur Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Salem (Mass.) |
ISBN | : |