Resources
Bibliography for Teachers
Blair St. George, Robert. “Witchcraft, Bodily Affliction, and Domestic Space in Seventeenth-Century New England.” A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press (2018): 13-27, doi:10.7591/9781501717635. This essay discusses the patriarchal structure of Puritan houses and contains an interesting image to show students. It also has stories of accusations made in Salem of witches trying to enter homes.
Breslaw, Elaine G. Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies. New York: NYU Press, 1995. muse.jhu.edu/book/7833. This is a worthwhile read to get the true story behind Tituba. It also houses transcripts of her confessions.
Chaemsaithong, Krisda."Linguistic and Stylistic Constructions of Witchcraft and Witches: A Case of Witchcraft Pamphlets in Early Modern England," ProQuest Dissertations Publishing (2007), https://go.exlibris.link/FVZPrbLQ. This dissertation really homes in on the words and syntax used in witchcraft pamphlets and focuses on alliteration, exaggeration, and binaries used to persuade their readers.
Cooke, Edward. Inventing Boston: Design, Consumption, and Production, 1680-1720. London: Yale University Press, 2019. This book gives an interesting way to look at materials and think about what they say about the culture that uses them.
Eaton, Scott. “Witches and the Devil in Early Modern Visual Cultures: Constructions of the Demonic Other.” Midlands Historical Review, 5 (2021), http://www.midlandshistoricalreview.com/witches-and-the-devil-in-early-mod ern-visual-cultures-constructions-of-the-demonic-other/. This has a great focus on witchcraft pamphlets and the power of their words and images for the construction of a stereotype that has persisted throughout time.
Hughes, Helen M. "The Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692: Constructing the Female as Irrational Other," University of Wyoming, 1996. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/salem-witchcraft-trials-1692-constructing-female/docview/304300061/se-2.
Hwang, Junghyun. "Tituba, “Dark Eve” in the Origins of the American Myth: The Subject of History and Writing about Salem." CLCWeb : Comparative Literature and Culture 23 no. 4, (2021), https://go.exlibris.link/0BTlKy0M. This article critically comments on Miller’s creation of Tituba and criticizes Miller’s heroization of John Proctor. It provides context and ideas for those students who question why Tituba is created the way she is and why Abigail is vilified.
Laskaris, Isabelle. “Agency and Emotion of Young Female Accusers in the Salem Witchcraft Trials,” Cultural and Social History, 16:4 (2019): 413-429, DOI:10.1080/14780038.2019.1585316. This article is interesting as it discusses why the young girl accusers did what they did. This is a question that comes up a lot when reading The Crucible and proves a beneficial read for teachers to understand the reasons why the accusations happened.
Miller, Angela et al. American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity, New Jersey: Pearson, 2008. A useful textbook for Art History. This has a chapter on Puritan homes.
“A Rehearsall Both Straung and True, of Hainous and Horrible Actes Committed by Elizabeth Stile, alias Rockingham, Mother Dutten, Mother Deuell, Mother Margaret, Fower Notorious Witches.” 1579, The British Library, https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/witchcraft-pamphlet-a-rehearsal-both-strange-and-true-1579. This has two of the images that I use to analyze in this unit.
Reed, Isaac. “Why Salem Made Sense: Culture, Gender, and the Puritan Persecution of Witchcraft, "Cultural Sociology, 1 no. 2 (2007), DOI: 10.1177/1749975507078188. This is an excellent read about gender and the Salem Witch Trials from a sociological perspective.
“Resistant Reading,” Learning for Justice, https://www.learningforjustice.org/classroom-resources/teaching-strategies/responding-to-the-readaloud-text/resistant-reading. A website that has useful information about this strategy.
Strazdes, Diana. "Catharine Beecher and the American Woman's Puritan Home." The New England Quarterly 82 no.3 (2009): 452-489. https://go.exlibris.link/RvqqmvMb. At the beginning of the article, there is some useful information about the Puritan house.
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, et al. Tangible Things: Making History Through Objects, Oxford University Press, Incorporated, (2015), ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.yale.idm.oclc.org/lib/yale-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1836106. This source talks about the importance of using objects in the classroom and for investigation.
“Visual Thinking Strategies,” Embracing Our Differences, 2023, https://www.embracingourdifferences.org/VTS. This website walks teachers through using these three simple questions technique. Images and Useful Websites for Teachers
“Early English Books Online,” University of Michigan, https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebogroup/. This website has transcriptions of witchcraft pamphlets which will help teachers and students decipher the script used on the actual primary source.
Hopkins, Matthew, The Discovery of Witches, 1647, The British Library, https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-discovery-of-witches. This is another interesting witchcraft book with illustrations. A teacher can use the image on the first page for analysis.
“A Rehearsall Both Straung and True, of Hainous and Horrible Actes Committed by Elizabeth Stile, alias Rockingham, Mother Dutten, Mother Deuell, Mother Margaret, Fower Notorious Witches.” 1579, The British Library, https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/witchcraft-pamphlet-a-rehearsal-both-strange-and-true-1579. This has two of the images that I use to analyze in this unit.
“Salem Trial Witchcraft Records.” Congregational Library and Archives, https://www.congregationallibrary.org/digital-collections/salem-witch-trials. This website has actual transcripts of the Salem Witch Trials. A teacher can use this website to dive more into primary sources and have students examine what the trial records looked like to compare what was created in Act III of The Crucible.
“The Salem Witchcraft Papers.” Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project, 2018, https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/category/swp.html. This is another website with a wealth of information, including transcripts, maps, and letters to help teachers and students better understand the witch trials.
“The Witch at Newbury, 1643.” Early Modern Whale, http://roy25booth.blogspot.com/2011/09/witch-at-newbury-1643.html. This is a blog that has an image of a witchcraft pamphlet worth examining.
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