The Salem Witchcraft Trials In United States History
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Author | : Bryan F. Le Beau |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2023-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000861309 |
Providing an accessible and comprehensive overview, The Story of the Salem Witch Trials explores the events between June 10 and September 22, 1692, when nineteen people were hanged, one was pressed to death and over 150 were jailed for practicing witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. This book explores the history of that event and provides a synthesis of the most recent scholarship on the subject. It places the trials into the context of the Great European Witch-Hunt and relates the events of 1692 to witch-hunting throughout seventeenth-century New England. Now in a third edition, this book has been updated to include an expanded section on the European origins of witch-hunts, an updated and expanded epilogue (which discusses the witch-hunts, real and imagined, historical and cultural, since 1692), and an extensive bibliography. This complex and difficult subject is covered in a uniquely accessible manner that captures all the drama that surrounded the Salem witch trials. From beginning to end, the reader is carried along by the author’s powerful narration and mastery of the subject. While covering the subject in impressive detail, Bryan Le Beau maintains a broad perspective on the events and, wherever possible, lets the historical characters speak for themselves. Le Beau highlights the decisions made by individuals responsible for the trials that helped turn what might have been a minor event into a crisis that has held the imagination of students of American history. This third edition of The Story of the Salem Witch Trials is essential for students and scholars alike who are interested in women’s and gender history, colonial American history, and early modern history.
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 | : 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 | : Peter Charles Hoffer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Historian Peter Charles Hoffer reexamines a notorious episode in American history and presents many of its legal details in true perspective for the first time. Hoffer also shows how rights we take for granted today did not exist in colonial times, and he demonstrates how these cases relate to current instances of children accusing adults of abuse.
Author | : Owen Davies |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2013-02-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199578710 |
The first major history of witchcraft in America - from the Salem witch trials of 1692 to the present day.
Author | : Lori Lee Wilson |
Publisher | : Twenty-First Century Books |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780822548898 |
Discusses the witchcraft trials in Salem in 1692, the events leading up to them, and how the trials have been viewed by different historians since then.
Author | : David K. Fremon |
Publisher | : Enslow Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2014-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0766063410 |
The Salem witchcraft trials occurred during a controversial period in colonial America in which mass hysteria led to a series of outrageous trials resulting in the conviction and execution of twenty people for practicing witchcraft, and the imprisonment of one hundred fifty other accused witches. Highlighting key people and events, Fremon explains the unique circumstances that existed in colonial Massachusetts and Salem Village at the time of the trials as he considers many possible reasons why the witchcraft trials were held.
Author | : Karen Zeinert |
Publisher | : Franklin Watts |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Salem (Mass.) |
ISBN | : |
A vivid account of the hysteria that enveloped Salem and of the 19 people who lost their lives as a result.
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 | : Richard Godbeer |
Publisher | : Macmillan Higher Education |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2017-12-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1319104886 |
The Salem witch trials stand as one of the infamous moments in colonial American history. More than 150 people -- primarily women -- from 24 communities were charged with witchcraft; 19 were hanged and others died in prison. This second edition continues to explore the beliefs, fears, and historical context that fueled the witch panic of 1692. In his revised introduction, Richard Godbeer offers coverage of the convulsive ergotism thesis advanced in the 1970s and a discussion of new scholarship on men who were accused of witchcraft for explicitly gendered reasons. The documents in this volume illuminate how the Puritans' worldview led them to seek a supernatural explanation for the problems vexing their community. Presented as case studies, the carefully chosen records from several specific trials offer a clear picture of the gender norms and social tensions that underlie the witchcraft accusations. New to this edition are records from the trial of Samuel Wardwell, a fortune-teller or "cunning man" whose apparent expertise made him vulnerable to suspicions of witchcraft. The book's final documents cover recantations of confessions, the aftermath of the witch hunt, and statements of regret. A chronology of the witchcraft crisis, questions for consideration, and a selected bibliography round out the book's pedagogical support.