Death In Salem

Author : Diane Foulds
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780762766406

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Death in Salem by Diane Foulds Pdf

Salem witchcraft will always have a magnetic pull on the American psyche. During the 1692 witch trials, more than 150 people were arrested. An estimated 25 million Americans—including author Diane Foulds—are descended from the twenty individuals executed. What happened to our ancestors? Death in Salem is the first book to take a clear-eyed look at this complex time, by examining the lives of the witch trial participants from a personal perspective. Massachusetts settlers led difficult lives; every player in the Salem drama endured hardships barely imaginable today. Mercy Short, one of the “bewitched” girls, watched as Indians butchered her parents; Puritan minister Cotton Mather outlived all but three of his fifteen children. Such tragedies shaped behavior and, as Foulds argues, ultimately played a part in the witch hunt’s outcome. A compelling “who’s who” to Salem witchcraft, Death in Salem profiles each of these historical personalities as it asks: Why was this person targeted?

Author : Robert Booth
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1429990260

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Death of an Empire by Robert Booth Pdf

SALEM has long been notorious for the witch trials of 1692. But a hundred years later it was renowned for very different pursuits: vast wealth and worldwide trade. Now Death of an Empire tells the story of Salem's glory days in the age of sailing, and the murder that hastened its descent. When America first became a nation, Salem was the richest city in the republic, led by a visionary merchant who still ranks as one of the wealthiest men in history. For decades, Salem connected America with the wider world, through a large fleet of tall ships and a pragmatic, egalitarian brand of commerce taht remains a model of enlightened international relations. But America's emerging big cities and westward expansion began to erode Salem's national political importance just as its seafaring economy faltered in the face of tariffs and global depression. With Salem's standing as a world capital imperiled, two men, equally favored by fortune, struggled for its future: one, a progressive merchant-politician, tried to build new institutions and businesses, while the other, a reclusive crime lord, offered a demimonde of forbidden pleasures. The scandalous trial that followed signaled Salem's fall from national prominence, a fall that echoed around the world in the loss of friendly trade and in bloody reprisals against native peoples by the U.S. Navy. Death of an Empire is an exciting tale of a remarkably rich era, shedding light on a little-known but fascinating period of Ameriacn history in which characters such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Quincy Adams, and Daniel Webster interact with the ambitious merchants and fearless mariners who made Salem famous around the world.

Author : Stacy Schiff
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316200615

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The Witches by Stacy Schiff Pdf

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic. As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, THE WITCHES is Stacy Schiff's account of this fantastical story-the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians.

Author : Joan Holub,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780698412347

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What Were the Salem Witch Trials? by Joan Holub,Who HQ Pdf

Something wicked was brewing in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. It started when two girls, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams, began having hysterical fits. Soon after, other local girls claimed they were being pricked with pins. With no scientific explanation available, the residents of Salem came to one conclusion: it was witchcraft! Over the next year and a half, nineteen people were convicted of witchcraft and hanged while more languished in prison as hysteria swept the colony. Author Joan Holub gives readers and inside look at this sinister chapter in history.

Author : Deborah Kent
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766029069

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Witchcraft Trials by Deborah Kent Pdf

Enhanced with sidebars and colorful maps, each book in this engaging series focuses on an event or era in American history, spanning from the time before Columbus' arrival to the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Author : Eleanor Kuhns
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466874947

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Death in Salem by Eleanor Kuhns Pdf

It's 1796, and traveling weaver Will Rees is visiting Salem, Massachusetts. He's in town to buy a luxurious gift for his pregnant wife, a few yards of well-made fabric from the traders at the famed Salem harbor. While traveling through Salem, however, Rees comes upon a funeral procession for the deceased Mrs. Antiss Boothe. When Rees happens upon Twig, a friend who fought alongside him in the war, he learns that Mrs. Boothe had been very ill, and her death had not come as a surprise. But the next morning, the town is abuzz with the news that Mr. Boothe has also died—and this time it is clearly murder. When the woman that Twig loves falls under suspicion, Twig persuades Rees to stay in Salem, despite the family waiting for him back home in Maine, and help solve the murder. Rees is quickly pulled into the murky politics of both Salem and the Boothe family, who have long been involved in the robust shipping and trading industry on the Salem harbor. Everyone Rees meets seems to be keeping some kind of secret, but could any of them actually have committed murder? Will Rees returns in Death in Salem, the next delightful historical mystery from MB/MWA First Novel Competition winner Eleanor Kuhns.

Author : Jodi Picoult
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743422796

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Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult Pdf

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult comes a compelling and “multilayered tale of small-town intrigue” (Glamour) about a prep schoolteacher accused of rape by a group of young girls, the woman who stands by him, and the repercussions of the case in a New England town where the past is only a heartbeat away. Love can redeem a man...but secrets and lies can condemn him. A handsome stranger comes to the sleepy New England town of Salem Falls in hopes of burying his past. Once a teacher at a girls prep school, Jack St. Bride was destroyed when a student’s crush sparked a powder keg of accusation. Now, washing dishes for Addie Peabody at the Do-Or-Diner, he slips quietly into his new routine, and Addie finds this unassuming man fitting easily inside her heart. But amid the rustic calm of Salem Falls, a quartet of teenage girls harbor dark secrets—and they maliciously target Jack with a shattering allegation. Now, at the center of a modern-day witch hunt, Jack is forced once again to proclaim his innocence: to a town searching for answers, to a justice system where truth becomes a slippery concept written in shades of gray, and to the woman who has come to love him in this unputdownable novel that will keep you “constantly guessing” (The Dallas Morning News) until the very last page.

Author : Hal Schrieve
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781609809027

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Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve Pdf

Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Young People's Literature A Publishers Weekly Best Young Adult Book of 2019 The best Teen Zombie Werewolf Witchy Faerie fantasy murder mystery you've ever read—by debut author, Hal Schrieve. Genderqueer fourteen-year-old Z Chilworth has to adjust quickly to their new status as a zombie after waking from death from a car crash that killed their parents and sisters. Always a talented witch, Z now can barely perform magic and is rapidly decaying. Faced with rejection from their remaining family members and old friends, Z moves in with their mother's friend, Mrs. Dunnigan, and befriends Aysel, a loud would-be-goth classmate who is, like Z, a loner. As Z struggles to find a way to repair the broken magical seal holding their body together, Aysel fears that her classmates will discover her status as an unregistered werewolf. When a local psychiatrist is murdered by what seems to be werewolves, the town of Salem, Oregon, becomes even more hostile to "monsters," and Z and Aysel are driven together in an attempt to survive a place where most people wish that neither of them existed. Rarely has a first-time author created characters of such immediacy and power as Z, Aysel, Tommy (suspected fey) and Elaine (also a werewolf), or a world that parallels our own so clearly and disturbingly.

Author : Marilynne K. Roach
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1589791320

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The Salem Witch Trials by Marilynne K. Roach Pdf

The Salem Witch Trials is based on over twenty-five years of archival research--including the author's discovery of previously unknown documents--newly found cases and court records. From January 1692 to January 1697 this history unfolds a nearly day-by-day narrative of the crisis as the citizens of New England experienced it.

Author : Mary Beth Norton
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307426369

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In the Devil's Snare by Mary Beth Norton Pdf

Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in this startlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study. In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were living in fear, and not solely of satanic afflictions. Horrifyingly violent Indian attacks had all but emptied the northern frontier of settlers, and many traumatized refugees—including the main accusers of witches—had fled to communities like Salem. Meanwhile the colony’s leaders, defensive about their own failure to protect the frontier, pondered how God’s people could be suffering at the hands of savages. Struck by the similarities between what the refugees had witnessed and what the witchcraft “victims” described, many were quick to see a vast conspiracy of the Devil (in league with the French and the Indians) threatening New England on all sides. By providing this essential context to the famous events, and by casting her net well beyond the borders of Salem itself, Norton sheds new light on one of the most perplexing and fascinating periods in our history.

Author : David Cody Weiss,Bobbi J. G. Weiss
Publisher : Simon Pulse
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Cats
ISBN : 0671017578

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Salem on Trial by David Cody Weiss,Bobbi J. G. Weiss Pdf

When Sabrina needs to do research for a local history paper, Salem helps her travel back in time to Colonial-era Westbridge.

Author : Emerson W. Baker
Publisher : Pivotal Moments in American Hi
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199890347

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A Storm of Witchcraft by Emerson W. Baker Pdf

Presents an historical analysis of the Salem witch trials, examining the factors that may have led to the mass hysteria, including a possible occurrence of ergot poisoning, a frontier war in Maine, and local political rivalries.

Author : Diane E. Foulds
Publisher : Globe Pequot
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0762784970

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Death in Salem by Diane E. Foulds Pdf

Salem witchcraft will always have a magnetic pull on the American psyche. During the 1692 witch trials, more than 150 people were arrested. An estimated 25 million Americans—including author Diane Foulds—are descended from the twenty individuals executed. What happened to our ancestors? Death in Salem is the first book to take a clear-eyed look at this complex time, by examining the lives of the witch trial participants from a personal perspective. Massachusetts settlers led difficult lives; every player in the Salem drama endured hardships barely imaginable today. Mercy Short, one of the “bewitched” girls, watched as Indians butchered her parents; Puritan minister Cotton Mather outlived all but three of his fifteen children. Such tragedies shaped behavior and, as Foulds argues, ultimately played a part in the witch hunt’s outcome. A compelling “who’s who” to Salem witchcraft, Death in Salem profiles each of these historical personalities as it asks: Why was this person targeted?

Author : Paul Boyer,Stephen Nissenbaum
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1977-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015058012561

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The Salem Witchcraft Papers by Paul Boyer,Stephen Nissenbaum Pdf

Works Progress Administration created in 1935; name changed in 1939 to Work Projects Administration.

Author : Cotton Mather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015036637943

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The Wonders of the Invisible World by Cotton Mather Pdf