Salem Possessed

Salem Possessed Sources and ClassicNote Author

  • Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum. Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2002.
  • Middlekauff, Robert. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 5, no. 4, 1975, pp. 753–56.
  • Boyer, Paul, and Stephen Nissenbaum. “‘Salem Possessed’ in Retrospect.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 3, 2008, pp. 503–34.
  • Karlsen, Carol F. “Salem Revisited.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 3, 2008, pp. 489–94.
  • Greven, Philip J. "Salem Probed." Review of Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft, by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum. Reviews in American History, vol. 2, no. 4, 1974, pp. 513–18.
  • Latner, Richard. “Salem Witchcraft, Factionalism, and Social Change Reconsidered: Were Salem’s Witch-Hunters Modernization’s Failures?” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 3, 2008, pp. 423–48.
  • Breen, T. H. Review of Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft, by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum. The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 1, 1975, pp. 137–39.
  • Butler, Jon. Review of Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft, by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum. Journal of Social History, vol. 8, no. 3, 1975, pp. 151–53.
  • Macfarlane, Alan. Review of Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft, by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum. Social History, vol. 1, no. 1, 1976, pp. 110–13.
  • Salisbury, Neal. Review of Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft, by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum. The New England Quarterly, vol. 47, no. 3, 1974, pp. 472–75.
  • Lucas, Paul R. Review of Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft, by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum. The Catholic Historical Review, vol. 61, no. 3, 1975, pp. 432–35.
  • Thompson, Roger. Review of Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft, by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum. Journal of American Studies, vol. 10, no. 1, 1976, pp. 109–10.
  • Akin, M. Barbara. Review of Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft, by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum. Church History, vol. 43, no. 3, 1974, pp. 418–418.
  • Kelleher, Robert P. Review of Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft, by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, vol. 18, no. 3, 1979, pp. 326–326.
  • Monter, E. William. Review of Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft, by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum. The History Teacher, vol. 9, no. 3, 1976, pp. 514–514.
  • WRIGHT, LANGDON G. Review of Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft, by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum. New York History, vol. 56, no. 4, 1975, pp. 469–70.
  • Miller, Arthur. "Why I Wrote the Crucible." The New Yorker. 11/3/22. <https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/10/21/why-i-wrote-the-crucible>.
  • Miller, Arthur. "Are you now or were you ever...?." The Guardian. 11/3/22. <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/jun/17/history.politics>.
  • "Is The Crucible Based on a True Story?." History of Massachusetts. 11/3/22. <https://historyofmassachusetts.org/the-crucible-story/>.