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. Calloway, Colin G.. North Country Captives: Selected Narratives of Indian Captivity from Vermont and New Hampshire. New England: Hanover, NH. 1992. Order from Amazon.com

    Includes narratives of Nehemiah How, Mary Fowler, Isabella McCoy, Captain Phineas Stevens, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Jemima Howe, Zadock Steele, and George Avery.
  2. Calloway, Colin G., ed.. After King Philip's War: Presence and Persistence in Indian New England. New England: Hanover, NH. 1997. Order from Amazon.com

    Includes ten essays about post-1676 New England native peoples, including a terrific introduction by the editor. Extensive bibliographies are included with each essay.
  3. Calvert, Karin. Children in the House: The Material Culture of Early Childhood, 1600-1900. Northeastern University Press: Boston, MA. 1992. Order from Amazon.com

    Part I, "The Inchoate Adult: 1600-1750" -- deals with the primary texts/objects which give a picture of how children were treated and perceived in the colonial era.
  4. Carlson, Laurie Winn. A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials. Ivan R. Dee: Chicago. 1999. Order from Amazon.com

    This book puts forth the theory that bird migration patterns could have brought encaphalitis lethargica to cause the hysterics in Salem Village. Both Salem scholars and medical experts have found major errors in this theory.
  5. Castillo, Susan, and Schweitzer, Ivy, eds.. The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology. Blackwell: Malden, MA. 2001. Order from Amazon.com

  6. Chapin, Bradley. Criminal Justice in Colonial America, 1606-1660. University of Georgia Press: Athens. 1983. Order from Amazon.com

  7. Church, Benjamin. Diary of King Philip's War 1675-1676. Introduction by Alan and Mary Simpson. Lockwood: Little Compton, RI. 1975. Order from Amazon.com

    This is a publication to commemorate the 300th anniversary of King Philip's War, by the town in Rhode Island where Colonel Church was from. It contains dozens of maps, portraits, facsimiles of title pages of books and more from the era, as well as Church's own account of King Philip's War.

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