Books with title The Salem Witch Trials

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.

The United States has been shaped by the people and events of its past. This series vividly describes events that had an effect on U.S. history and introduces young readers to the people who shaped them. The easy-to-read text, historic art and photography, suggested activities, and clear, simple maps help bring to life the causes of these events, their effects on people at the time, and their significance today.

In 1692, two young girls in Salem, Massachusetts, were diagnosed by the local doctor as being bewitched. Hysteria over witchcraft reached a fever pitch leading the Puritan townsfolk to accuse friends and neighbors of being under Satan's influence. This book tells the unbelievable, yet true, story of how innocent people were jailed on the evidence of dreams and visions, and how the legal system allowed nineteen people to be hanged before the governor of the state brought the people of Salem to their senses.