Further Reading
- Booth, Sally Smith. "The Law and Trial of Witchcraft," in The Witches of Early America, New York: Hastings House, 1975, pp. 141–67. (Describes the laws and procedures involved in the witchcraft trials.)
- Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum, eds. Salem-Village Witchcraft. Belmont, Cal.: Wadsworth Publishing, 1972, 416 p. (Reference work of primary material that contains trial records, sermons, deeds, wills, depositions, petitions, maps, and genealogies.)
- Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum, eds. The Salem Witchcraft Papers. 3 vols. New York: Da Capo Press, 1977. (Essential reference work that contains historical documents pertaining to the trials, including testimony of the accused, letters, petitions, and official court judgments. Also features an introduction and extensive notes by Boyer and Nissenbaum.)
- Breslaw, Elaine G. Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem. New York: New York University Press, 1996, 243 p. (Biography of the slave woman accused of launching the Salem witchcraft hysteria with her vivid confessions. Breslaw maintains that Tituba was an American Indian.)
- Gragg, Larry. The Salem Witch Crisis. New York: Praeger, 1992, 228 p. (General overview that relates the events of the Salem crisis in a chronological narrative; includes a chapter on prison conditions.)
- Hall, David D. "Witchcraft and the Limits of Interpretation," The New England Quarterly 58, No. 2 (June 1985): 253–81. (Assesses the individual works of several historians who wrote about witchcraft in New England.)
- Hall, David D. Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991, 332 p. (Focuses on many individual pre-1692 cases of witch persecution.)
- Hansen, Chadwick. Witchcraft at Salem. New York: George Braziller, 1969, 252 p. (A controversial work which asserts that witchcraft did exist in Salem, that those afflicted behaved pathologically and not fraudulently, and that the clergy have been unfairly blamed for their role in the crisis.)
- Levin, David, ed. What Happened in Salem? New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1960, 238 p. (Contains trial evidence, contemporary comments, court declarations, and two pieces of historical fiction, including Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown.")
- Mappen, Marc, ed. Witches and Historians. Malabar, Fla.: Kreiger Publishing, 1980, 120 p. (Wide-ranging collection of essays by noted scholars.)
- Nelson, Mary. "Why Witches Were Women," in Women: A Feminist Perspective, edited by Jo Freeman, Palo Alto, Cal.: Mayfield Publishing, 1975, pp. 335–50. (Discusses the belief in witchcraft during the middle ages as a response to certain problematic behaviors of women.)
- Robinson, Enders A. The Devil Discovered. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1991, 382 p. (Provides a biography for each of the first seventy-five individuals accused of being witches at Salem.)
- Rosenthal, Bernard. Salem Story. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, 286 p. (Compares original documents with the myths that have grown out of the trials and concludes that much of the behavior in Salem was, in context, rational.)
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