The Salem witch trials / Lori Lee Wilson.
Series: How History is InventedPublisher: Minneapolis : Lerner Publications Company, c1997Copyright date: c1997Description: 112 pages : illustrations (some color), 1 map, photographs; 26 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- cartographic image
- unmediated
- volume
- 0822548895
- At head of title: How history is invented
- Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History -- Juvenile literature
- Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- Juvenile literature
- Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Juvenile literature
- Salem (Mass.) -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature
- Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Salem
- Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Salem
- 133.4/3/097445 20
- BF1575 .W613 1997
Includes bibliographical references (pages 108-109) and index.
The evolution of witchcraft -- Salem witchcraft-- Divine punishment-- Rationalism vs. witchcraft-- Diagnosing witchcraft-- Feminists and witchcraft-- A modern witch-hunt-- Witch city-- Becoming a historian-- Sources of information-- Index.
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.