The Salem Witch Trials
A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege

This hefty tome packs in a lot about the day to day history of the Salem witchcraft trials, literally, as it tells in straightforward language what happened on particular dates over the period from the beginning of the accusations, with the events in Samuel Parris' vicarage, to 1695 when the New Eng......more

This is a monumental work, both in that it is more than 600 pages long, counting appendices and in that, as the author says, it took her twenty-plus years. It's a day by day recounting of the Salem Village witchcraft crisis, correlated with things happening in surrounding villages, in Salem Town, in......more

This books covers the details of the events in Salem Village and the surrounding area in amazing detail. An almost day-by-day account for two years plus fairly detailed accounts for several more years. The epilogue brings the legacy into the late 20th century. Of all that I have read about the witch......more

I hate giving this a low review because the author clearly put in so much time and effort to write this book. It gives so much factual information and references to almost every piece of documentation we have from that time. If you are looking to do formal research on this topic, I would definitely......more

Hysteria begets hysteria. A fascinating look at mean girls, bad neighbors, and really bad legal reasoning. The popular image of witch trials hews closer to the Monty Python scene from "Holy Grail" with pitchfork brandishing mobs burning an innocent woman at the stake. ("She turned me into a newt..........more