HIST 6040 - Readings in History: Witchcraft in Colonial America

Each of the journal articles below can be accessed through JSTOR. In preparation for Week 5 of class, you will select and read two of the articles below (you can stay within individual categories or move between them).

Butler, Jon. “Magic, Astrology, and the Early American Religious Heritage, 1600-1760.” The American Historical Review 84, no. 2 (1979): 317-46.

Gould, Philip. “New England Witch-Hunting and the Politics of Reason in the Early Republic.” New England Quarterly 68, no. 1 (1995): 58-82.

Harley, David. “Explaining Salem: Calvinist Psychology and the Diagnosis of Possession.” The American Historical Review 101, no. 2 (1996), 307-30.

Kibbey, Ann. “Mutations of the Supernatural: Witchcraft, Remarkable Providences, and the Power of Puritan Men." American Quarterly, 34 (1982): 125-48.

Latner, Richard. "‘Here Are No Newters’: Witchcraft and Religious Discord in Salem Village and Andover.” New England Quarterly 79 (2006): 92-122.

Ray, Benjamin. “Satan’s War Against the Covenant in Salem Village.” New England Quarterly 80 (2007): 69-95.

Breslaw, Elaine “Tituba's Confession: The Multicultural Dimensions of the 1692 Salem Witch-Hunt.” Ethnohistory 44, no. 3 (1997): 535-56.

Lovejoy, David. “Satanizing the American Indian.” New England Quarterly 67, no. 4 (1994): 603-21.

McMillan, Timothy. "Black Magic: Witchcraft, Race, and Resistance in Colonial New England." Journal of Black Studies 25 (1994): 99-117.

McWilliams, John. "Indian John and the Northern Tawnies." New England Quarterly 69 (1996): 580-604..

Tucker, Veta Smith. “Purloined Identity: The Racial Metamorphosis of Tituba of Salem Village.” Journal of Black Studies 30, No. 4 (2000): 624-34.

Brown, David C. "The Forfeitures at Salem, 1692." William and Mary Quarterly 59 (1993): 85-111.

Craker, Wendel D. "Spectral Evidence, Non-Spectral Acts of Witchcraft and Confession at Salem in 1692." Historical Journal 40 (1997): 331-58.

Davies, Owen. “The Nightmare Experience, Sleep Paralysis, and Witchcraft Accusations,” Folklore 114 (2003): 181-203.

Latner, Richard. “The Long and Short of Salem Witchcraft: Chronology and Collective Violence in 1692.” Journal of Social History 42, no. 1 (2008): 137-56.

Zeller, Anne C. "Arctic Hysteria in Salem?" Anthropologica 32 (1990): 239-64.

Godbeer, Richard, “‘Your Wife Will Be Your Biggest Accuser’: Reinforcing Codes of Manhood at New England Witch Trials.” Early American Studies 15, no. 3 (2017): 574-504.

Kent, E. J. “Masculinity and Male Witches in Old and New England, 1593-1680.” History Workshop Journal no. 60 (2005): 69-92.

Reis, Elizabeth. “The Devil, the Body, and the Feminine Soul in Puritan New England.” Journal of American History 82, no. 1 (1995): 15-36.