trials (witchcraft)

Follows fifteen-year-old Samantha Mather, who has moved to Salem with her stepmother 300 years after her family hanged witches there, to find she is ostracized by the witch descendants at school, as she unravels the lost secrets of the hangings and her family.

Text and photographs look at the seventeenth-century Salem Witch trials.

Get ready to blast back to the past and learn all about the Salem Witch Trials. This series offers kids a unique look at the Salem Witch Trials, giving them a strong sense of the who's, what's, and whys through cool, little-known facts and details.

An introduction to the Salem Witch Trials.

Explores the history of the use of the Salem witch trials as a metaphor for persecution, intolerance, and bigotry.

Collects two important early accounts of the infamous Salem witchcraft trials.

Explores the history of the Salem Witch Trials in the 1690s, discussing the origin of the panic of the Salem community about witches and devil worship, highlighting this period of time as one of the few moments in American history where women have played a central role.

It is winter in Salem Village, Massachusetts in 1692. Some teenage girls may be suffering from mysterious afflictions. They accused certain townspeople of being witches. What would you do? Would you believe the girls? Would you join the madness?.

Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin, having agreed to handle the sale of her grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, Massachusetts, comes across an ancient key while going through the house which holds a piece of parchment with the name Deliverance Dane written on it, and in her efforts to discover more about the mysterious Deliverance, Connie soon finds herself having visions of the Salem witch trials and wondering about the extent of her family's connection to history.

Students will be fascinated by the events that transpired in seventeenth-century colonial Massachusetts, when a group of young girls accused several townspeople of witchcraft. Through colorful images and riveting text, this "truth is stranger than fiction" story will teach young readers much about the religious and cultural state of colonial New England, as well as the dangers of groupthink.