salem

Uses the personal story of Judge Samuel Sewall to explore the Salem witch hunt of 1692 from a new perspective, discussing how the witch hunt helped create a new sense of social consciousness and how Sewall's role in the trials impacted his own beliefs.

Provides a literary analysis of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible, " and features a variety of primary historical documents and commentary that offer insight into the context in which the play was written.

Story of Tituba, a West Indian slave girl who was unjustly accused of witchcraft at the outset of the Salem, Massachusetts, witch trials.

Examines the Salem witch trials from a seventeenth-century perspective, discussing the people involved, including the accused, the accusers, the confessors, and the judges; the role of gossip; and the influence of external factors such as the Indian wars on the Maine frontier.

Reexamines the Salem witch trials in light of modern psychology and feminism.

Focuses on the witchcraft controversy in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692.

A short study of the Salem witch trials that began in 1691 in the small village of Salem, Massachusetts, in which twenty people were executed for the crime of witchcraft.

An account of the events leading up to and during the legendary witchcraft trials in Salem, Massachusetts, and a look at Salem's place in history after 1693 and at the historical sites that tourists can visit today.

Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin, having agreed to handle the sale of her grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, Massachusetts, comes across an ancient key while going through the house which holds a piece of parchment with the name Deliverance Dane written on it, and in her efforts to discover more about the mysterious Deliverance, Connie soon finds herself having visions of the Salem witch trials and wondering about the extent of her family's connection to history.