Salem Witch Trials

Author : Marilynne K. Roach
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781589791329
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Salem Witch Trials written by Marilynne K. Roach and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Joan Holub
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698412346
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Were the Salem Witch Trials? written by Joan Holub and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something wicked was brewing in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. It started when two girls, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams, began having hysterical fits. Soon after, other local girls claimed they were being pricked with pins. With no scientific explanation available, the residents of Salem came to one conclusion: it was witchcraft! Over the next year and a half, nineteen people were convicted of witchcraft and hanged while more languished in prison as hysteria swept the colony. Author Joan Holub gives readers and inside look at this sinister chapter in history.

Author : Marc Aronson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416903151
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witch-Hunt written by Marc Aronson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sifting through the facts, myths, and half-truths surrounding the 1692 witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, a historian draws on primary sources to explore the events of that time.

Author : The Editors of TIME-LIFE
Publisher : Time Home Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 1547845260
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book TIME/LIFE The Salem Witch Trials written by The Editors of TIME-LIFE and published by Time Home Entertainment. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Salem witch trials remain one of the most shocking and studied episodes in American history. Within the span of 15 months, the legal proceedings around the trials swept up at least 144 people, secured the confessions of 54 individuals and led to the execution of 20, mostly women. The hysteria and the accusations reached far beyond the geographic limits of Salem Village, eventually engulfing more than 20 towns and villages in the vicinity. Now, in this Special Edition from TIME-LIFE - The Salem Witch Trials - readers can revisit the witch trials, study their European origins and understand "the climate of fear" both then and now. This Special Edition is also full of historic photographs and images of Salem, the participants, and more, and a special section devoted to modern witchcraft and witches in the movies and on television.

Author : Mary Beth Norton
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030742636X
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Devil's Snare written by Mary Beth Norton and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in this startlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study. In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were living in fear, and not solely of satanic afflictions. Horrifyingly violent Indian attacks had all but emptied the northern frontier of settlers, and many traumatized refugees—including the main accusers of witches—had fled to communities like Salem. Meanwhile the colony’s leaders, defensive about their own failure to protect the frontier, pondered how God’s people could be suffering at the hands of savages. Struck by the similarities between what the refugees had witnessed and what the witchcraft “victims” described, many were quick to see a vast conspiracy of the Devil (in league with the French and the Indians) threatening New England on all sides. By providing this essential context to the famous events, and by casting her net well beyond the borders of Salem itself, Norton sheds new light on one of the most perplexing and fascinating periods in our history.

Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Tangled History
ISBN 13 : 1543541976
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Salem Witch Trials written by Michael Burgan and published by Tangled History. This book was released on 2019 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid storytelling brings American history to life and place readers in the shoes of people who experienced one of the most notorious moments in American history - the Salem Witch Trials. In the spring of 1692, girls in Salem, Massachusetts, accused several local women of witchcraft. The events that followed were marked by mass hysteria and religious extremism and ultimately led to trials, convictions, executions, and many more accusals. Suspenseful, dramatic events unfold in chronological, interwoven stories from the different perspectives of people who experienced the event while it was happening. Narratives intertwine to create a breathless, What's Next? kind of read. Students gain a new perspective on historical figures as they learn about real people struggling to decide how best to act in a given moment.

Author : Lori Lee Wilson
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822548898
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Salem Witch Trials written by Lori Lee Wilson and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Karen Zeinert
Publisher : Franklin Watts
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Salem Witchcraft Trials written by Karen Zeinert and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1989 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid account of the hysteria that enveloped Salem and of the 19 people who lost their lives as a result.

Author : Bernard Rosenthal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521558204
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salem Story written by Bernard Rosenthal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salem Story engages the story of the Salem witch trials by contrasting an analysis of the surviving primary documentation with the way events of 1692 have been mythologised by our culture. Resisting the temptation to explain the Salem witch trials in the context of an inclusive theoretical framework, the book examines a variety of individual motives that converged to precipitate the witch-hunt. Of the many assumptions about the Salem witch trials, the most persistent is that they were instigated by a circle of hysterical girls. Through an analysis of what actually happened - by perusal of the primary materials with the 'close reading' approach of a literary critic - a different picture emerges, one where 'hysteria' inappropriately describes the logical, rational strategies of accusation and confession followed by the accusers, males and females alike.

Author : Don Nardo
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1534560408
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Salem Witch Trials written by Don Nardo and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.