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Massachusetts Salem Merchants Massachusetts Biography Procès (Sorcellerie) Massachusetts Salem Histoire 17e siècle Salem (Mass.) History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Sewall, Samuel 1652-1730 Trials (Witchcraft) Trials (Witchcraft) Massachusetts Salem Trials (Witchcraft) Massachusetts Salem History 17th century Witchcraft Witchcraft Massachusetts Salem History 17th centuryLight, Kate
Summary: "The Salem witch trials marked one of the darkest moments in U.S. history. In 1692, two young children were accused of being bewitched and were arrested. More than 150 arrests occurred over the next two months, and a special court was created to try the cases. A total of 20 people were found guilty of being witches, and all of them were hanged. Inside this compelling volume, readers are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 345.744 LIGLoh-Hagan, Virginia
Summary: "Would you have survived the Salem witch trials? Make decisions and tally your score to find out. Written at a lower reading level with considerate text, these high maturity books are sure to grab struggling readers as they engage and play along. Also includes a table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, sidebars, educational matter, and activities"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 345.744 LOHFrancis, Richard
Summary: Biographer and novelist Francis looks at the Salem witch hunt of 1692 with fresh eyes, through the story of Samuel Sewall, New England Puritan, Salem trial judge, antislavery agitator, defender of Native American rights, utopian theorist, family man. The second-generation colonists were pitted against the pagan Native Americans and a hostile mother country intent on imposing control. Out of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fourth Estate 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEWALL, SAMUEL FRALaPlante, Eve
Summary: Traces the story of the judge responsible for executing twenty Salem witch trial victims, discussing how he came to regret his actions, and his later efforts to oppose slavery and further Native American relations and sexual equality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEWALL, SAMUEL LAPFels, Tony
Summary: In Switching Sides, Tony Fels traces a remarkable shift in scholarly interpretations of the Salem witch hunt from the post{u2013}World War II era up through the present. Fels explains that for a new generation of historians influenced by the radicalism of the New Left in the 1960s and early 1970s, the Salem panic acquired a startlingly different meaning. Determined to champion the common people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.4 FELHowe, Katherine.
Summary: "Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie's grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, she can't refuse. There, Connie discovers an ancient key secreted within a seventeenth-century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOWStarkey, Marion Lena.
Summary: This historical narrative of the Salem witch trials takes its dialogue from actual trial records but applies modern psychiatric knowledge to the witchcraft hysteria. Starkey's sense of drama also vividly recreates the atmosphere of pity and terror that fostered the evil and suffering of this human tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.744 STABaker, Emerson W.
Summary: "Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuck into their flesh and of being haunted by specters. Believing that they suffered from assaults by an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.744 BAKRoach, Marilynne K.
Summary: The Salem Witch Trials is based on over twenty-five years of original archival research (including the author's discovery of previously unknown documents), as well as on 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, while providing details of the communal,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taylor Trade Publishing, an imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.43 ROAHill, Frances
Summary: "An entertaining and suspenseful drama that is also a cautionary tale for our times."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.744 HILSchiff, Stacy.
Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra analyzes the Salem Witch Trials to offer key insights into the role of women in its events while explaining how its tragedies became possible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 SCHCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 SCHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US SchiffO'Reilly, Bill
Summary: "With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers, Bill O'Reilly's Killing series is the most popular series of narrative histories in the world. Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023