Thank you to all who sent responses. Here's what I've compiled:
The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-To-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege
by Marilynne K. Roach
Presenting the events of Salem's witch hysteria in 1692 and 1693 in a chronological
format, this authorative book makes use of previously unknown court records and
documents. Roach introduces her account with a narrative history of the Salem
community from 1661 to 1691. She provides historical details-such as the conflicts
between church congregations and ministers and the increasing frequency of Indian
attacks-as she contends that the hysteria arose most likely from the political,
religious and social turmoil of the time. Using newly available diaries, journals
and letters, Roach then reconstructs, for the first time, daily life during the
height of the witch trials as well as accounts of court proceedings, arrests and
suspects' confessions. In an epilogue, Roach shows that, just a decade after the
trials, preachers sought repentance for the injustices done and that the desire to
right the wrongs of the trials lasted well into the 19th century. 35 b&w illus. and
maps. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
In the days of the Salem Witch trials by Marilynne Roach – This is a different
version of the book listed above.
133.4 SAL The Salem witch trials. San Diego : Greenhaven Press ; Detroit :
Thomson/Gale, c2003. Contains essays in which the author consider issues related
to the witch trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, discussing
possible reasons why the witch hunt occurred, and considering the motivations of
the accusers, as well as the innocents who confessed.
345.744 WOO Woods, Geraldine. The Salem witchcraft trials : a headline court case.
Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c2000. Examines the events
surrounding the Salem Witchcraft Trials and the unjust treatment of those who were
falsely accused.
345.744 ZEI Zeinert, Karen. The Salem witchcraft trials. New York : F. Watts,
1989. Relates the causes, events, and aftermath of the witchcraft trials which
took place in Salem, Massachusetts, in the early 1690's and resulted in the deaths
of more than nineteen people.
The Devil In Massachusetts by Marion Starky was written from trial transcripts with
very little "artistic license" used. 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.
Salem Possessed by Paul S. Boyer
Entertaining Satan by John Putnam Demos.
Witch-hunt: mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials by Marc Aronson ISBN 0689848641
Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. In a plain meetinghouse, a woman stands before her
judges. The accusers, girls and young women, are fervent, overexcited, just on the
edge of breaking out into convulsions. The accused is a poor, unpopular woman who
had her first child before she was married. As the trial proceeds, the girls begin
to wail, tear their clothing, and scream that the woman is hurting them. Some of
them expose wounds to the horrified onlookers, holding out the pins that have
stabbed them -- pins that have appeared as if by magic. Are the girls acting, or
are they really tormented by an unseen evil? Whatever the cause, the nightmare in
Salem has begun: The witch trials will eventually claim twenty-five lives, shatter
the community, and forever shape the American social conscience.
Jeri Calcote
District Library Media Specialist
Poolville (TX) I.S.D.
calcote@cox-internet.com
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