History 231 Reading Guide

Disaffected New Englanders:  Alienated affections and the “declension” of Puritan New England

Further reading:

  • Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, “Salem Possessed:  The Social Origins of Witchcraft” (1974) in Stanley N. Katz and John Murrin Colonial America: Essays and Politics and Social Development, 3rd ed. (New York, 1983).