LibGuides: Primary Sources: Witches & Witchcraft: Salem & New England

Online Sources: Witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts

Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive & Transcription Project
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A variety of materials provided by the University of Virginia relating to the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts.
Salem Witchcraft Trials (1692) [Famous American Trials]
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Part of The Famous American Trials Project at the UMKC School of law. It provides access to various primary source materials such as petitions, letters, etc.

Book Sources: Witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts

A selection of books/e-books available in Trible Library.
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Conflicts in American History: A Documentary Encyclopedia by Each volume has a different editor.
Call Number: E174 .C655 2010
ISBN: 0816070938
Cry "Witch": the Salem Witch Trials, 1692 by Juliet H. Mofford
Call Number: BF1575 .C79 1995
ISBN: 1878668528
Daily Life During the Salem Witch Trials by K. David Goss
Call Number: F7 .G695 2012
ISBN: 0313374589
The Diary and Life of Samuel Sewall by Melvin Yazawa
Call Number: F67 .S516 1998
ISBN: 9780312133948
Documents of the Salem Witch Trials (Eyewitness to History) by K. David Goss
Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 1440853215
Through its extensive use of primary source materials and provision of essential accompanying explanations, this book places readers into the context of late 17th-century Salem society to shed light on one of the darkest events in American history--the Salem witch trials.
Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 by George Lincoln Burr
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
Opposing Viewpoints in American History by William Dudley
Call Number: E173 .O7 2007
ISBN: 0737731842
v. 1. From colonial times to Reconstruction -- v. 2. From Reconstruction to the present
Records of Salem Witchcraft by W. Elliot Woodward
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
Copied from the Original Documents
Salem Witchcraft Papers
Call Number: KFM2478.8.W5 S163
ISBN: 0306707555
verbatim transcripts of the legal documents of the Salem witchcraft outbreak of 1692
The Salem Witchcraft Papers - Digital Edition by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum (editors)
Call Number: Online - free - UVA
Verbatim Transcriptions of the Court Records
In three volumes.
The Salem Witch Hunt: A Brief History with Documents by Richard Godbeer
Call Number: BF1576 .G635 2011
ISBN: 0312484550
The Salem Witch Hunt: A Brief History with Documents (2nd edition) by Richard Godbeer
Call Number: BF1576 .G635 2018
ISBN: 1319088139
The Salem Witch Trials: A Reference Guide by K. David Goss
Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 0313320950
A Short History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Trials by Martin Van Buren Perley
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
illustrated by a verbatim report of the trial of Mrs. Elizabeth Howe; a memorial of her .. Map and half tone illustrations.
The Wonders of the Invisible World by Cotton Mather
Call Number: Online - free - Internet Archive
Being an account of the tryals of several witches lately executed in New England : to which is added : A farther account of the tryals of the New-England witches (1862)
From the Internet Archive
Also in Trible Library MICRO LAC 15305

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