does anyone know where to get info on the Salem witch trials? without using wikipedia!?

Question

i have to do a 5-7 page reasherch paper on this subject and need all the info i get !!! si thanks to those who can help !!!

Answer 1

Salem witch trials
Encyclopædia Britannica Article


(May–October 1692), in American history, a series of investigations and persecutions that caused 19 convicted “witches” to be hanged and many other suspects to be imprisoned in the town of Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Stimulated by voodoo tales told by a West Indian slave, Tituba, a few young girls claimed they were possessed by the devil and subsequently accused three Salem women, including Tituba, of witchcraft. As Tituba and other accused persons were pressured and consequently incriminated others in false confessions, public hysteria over the threat of witchcraft mounted throughout Massachusetts.

Civil magistrates, encouraged by the clergy, set up a special court in Salem to try those accused of practicing witchcraft, and Samuel Sewall, John Hathorne, and William Stoughton were chosen as the court's judges. The list of the accused increased (even Massachusetts governor William Phips's wife was implicated) until 150 people had been imprisoned and were awaiting trial. By September, however, the climate of mass hysteria had begun to abate, and public opinion first stopped, and then condemned, the trials. Governor Phips dissolved the special court in October and released the remaining prisoners. The Massachusetts General Court (legislature) later annulled the witch trials' convictions and granted indemnities to the families of those who had been executed.



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Answer 2

Whatever you do, don't read The Crucible (it's fiction) or depend on random Google searches. The best Internet source is the Web site for the Salem Witch Trials Documentary and Archive project, at http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/.

You can also consult the classic book "Salem Witchcraft" by Charles Upham, which is available at most good libraries. It's also available as a free e-book (with a hot-linked index) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/17845.

Answer 3

Go to the library. They should at least have encyclopedias, and you could search the library database for key words like "Salem" or "witch trials."

Your teacher will probably be impressed, considering how few people utilize actual books today.

Answer 4

Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive
http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/

Start withe the above URL; look at what added,

Legal aspects thread; good stuff, high school to college level material
http://www.h-net.org/~law/threads/incmathr.html

Theoretical Aspects - Psychological and historical aspects;
http://www.007academics.com/salemwitchtrials.html

Google or Yahoo search: Salem witch "women's studies"

This should get you all you would ever require,

JoeDoc: my profile tells about "wiki"

Answer 5

your local library has things called books. they are WAY More reliable than wikipidia. the employ college trained experts (called librarians) to help you find the books on the subjects you need. this method does require you to start you 7 page research paper slightly earlier than the night before it is due however.

Answer 6

Read "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller

Answer 7

go to a library

tons of books and journal articles on it