17th Century New England, with special emphasis on the Salem Witchcraft Trials

A 17th Century Colonial New England Bibliography

This is a sometimes-annotated bibliography of the books in my personal reference library as I research 17th century colonial New England. There are a lot about the Salem witch-hunt, Puritan thought, and Anglo-Indian contact, but also a few odds and ends that make sense to me to have on hand. Please note: I do not lend books. To anyone. Most of these titles can be borrowed from any good public or university library. If you want to purchase a copy of any of these titles, I have included direct links to Amazon.com for all but a handful of out-of-print or hard-to-find local imprint titles. To print out the whole bibliography, please use the printer-friendly version to save paper.

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Anderson | Bailyn | Bouchard | Bradford | Bremer | Calloway | Condé | Daniels | Dow | Fisher
Gildrie | Grumet | Hayes | Holifield | Koehler | Lockridge | Mather | Miller | Norton | Powers
Robinson | Scot | Slotkin | Tapley | Ulrich | Vaughan | Whiting | Woodward

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  1. Koehler, Lyle. A Search for Power: The "Weaker Sex" in Seventeenth-Century New England. University of Illinois: Urbana, IL. 1980. Order from Amazon.com

  2. Kramer, Heinrich, and Sprenger, James. The Malleus Maleficarum. Translated by Montague Summers. Reprint of the 19288 edition, with introduction from the 1948 reprint. Dover: New York. 1971. Order from Amazon.com

    Originally published in 1484, "The Witches' Hammer" was the ultimate manual for witchhunters on the Continent.
  3. Le Beau, Bryan, F.. The Story of the Salem Witch Trials: "We Walked in Coulds and Could Not See Our Way.". Prentice-Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ. 1998. Order from Amazon.com

    Another telling of the tale. 37 pages of endnotes and 9 pages of "selected" bibliography.
  4. Leach, Douglas Edward. Flintlock and Tomahawk: New England in King Philip's War. Parnassus: New Orleans, MA. 1958. Order from Amazon.com

    Consider the publication date of this book -- 1958 -- when reading this. The stereotypical views of the Indian culture are downright racist and offensive by today's sensibilities -- characterizing the "squaws" as "drudges" but the colonists as "industrious." Lots of comparisons of the brutality of King Philip's War to WWII.
  5. Leach, Edward Douglas. Roots of Conflict: British Armed Forces and Colonial Americans, 1677-1763. University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, NC. 1986. Order from Amazon.com

  6. Lepore, Jill. The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity. Alfred Knopf: New York. 1998. Order from Amazon.com

  7. Levack, Brian P., ed.. The Witchcraft Sourcebook. Routledge: New York. 2004. Order from Amazon.com

    A compendium of texts through the ages about witchcraft

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This page was last updated Feb. 15, 2009 by Margo Burns, My email address.