Books, films, videos, plays, ballets, articles, and other works by our guests, past and scheduled
Guests
Tom Mattingly (Bonus episode 1: Ballet Des Moines – Salem)
Michael Cormier and Myriam Cyr (Bonus episode 2: Saltonstall’s Trial)
Michael Cormier (Bonus episode 2: Saltonstall’s Trial)
Myriam Cyr (Bonus episode 2: Saltonstall’s Trial)
Beth Caruso (Episode 1: Connecticut Witch Trials with Beth Caruso and Tony Griego of CT WITCH Memorial, Episode 2: Should Connecticut Witch Trial Victims be Exonerated?, Episode 3: Between God and Satan with Kathy Hermes and Beth Caruso)
- One of Windsor: The Untold Story of America’s First Witch Hanging
- The Salty Rose: Alchemists, Witches, & A Tapper In New Amsterdam
Mary-Louise Bingham (Episode 2: Should Connecticut Witch Trial Victims be Exonerated?))
Scott Culpepper (Episode 3: Connecticut Witch-Hunts and John Winthrop, Jr. with Dr. Scott Culpepper)
- Francis Johnson and the English Separatist Influence: The Bishop of Brownism’s Life, Writings, and Controversies
- “Connecticut Witch Trials” with Dr. Scott Culpepper 7-24-2022 (Video)
Maya Rook (Episode 4: Folk Magic and the Salem Witch Trials with Maya Rook)
- Illusory Time (website)
- Salem Oracle (podcast)
Malcolm Gaskill (Episode 5: Malcolm Gaskill on the Ruin of All Witches)
- Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England
- Hellish Nell: Last of Britain’s Witches
- Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy
- Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction
- Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans
- The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
Danny Buck (Episode 6: Witch-Hunts in Great Yarmouth and Salem with Dr. Danny Buck)
- Presbyterianism, Urban Politics, and Division: The 1645 Great Yarmouth Witch-Hunt in Context (Thesis PDF)
Annika Hylmo (Episode 7: Documenting the Exoneration of the Last Witch of Salem)
Cassandra Roberts Hesseltine (Episode 7: Documenting the Exoneration of the Last Witch of Salem)
- IMDb page
- NFMLA Stage 5 Filmmaker Interview | Cassandra Hesseltine
- 4 Questions for “Going to St. Ives” Director Cassandra Hesseltine, Redwood Curtain Theatre
Greg Houle (Episode 8: The Putnams of Salem with Greg Houle)
Katherine Howe (Episode 9: Katherine Howe on the Salem Witch-Hunt)
- The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
- The House of Velvet and Glass
- Conversion
- The Penguin Book of Witches
- The Appearance of Annie Van Sinderen
- The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs
- Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
- A True Account of Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself: a novel
Marion Gibson (Episode 11: Marion Gibson on The Witches of St. Osyth)
- Witchcraft: The Basics
- Reading Witchcraft: Stories of Early English Witches
- Early Modern Witches: Witchcraft Cases in Contemporary Writing
- Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550-1750
- Witchcraft Myths in American Culture: Myths in American Culture
- Shakespeare’s Demonology: A Dictionary
- Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity
- Imagining the Pagan Past: Gods and Goddesses in Literature and History Since the Dark Ages
- Possession, Puritanism and Print: Darrell, Harsnett, Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Exorcism Controversy (Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World)
- Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft
- The Witches of St Osyth
- Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
Mary W. Craig (Episode 12: Scottish Witch Trials with Mary W. Craig)
- A Tangled Web: Mata Hari: Dancer, Courtesan, Spy
- Beside the Annexe
- Borders Witch Hunt
- Agnes Finnie: The ‘Witch’ of the Potterrow Port
Daniel A. Gagnon (Episode 13: Rebecca Nurse of Salem with Dan Gagnon)
Damon Leff (Episode 14: Witch-Hunting in Modern South Africa with Damon Leff)
Richard Hite (Episode 15: The Andover Witch Hunt with Richard Hite)
Debra Walsh (Bonus Episode 5: Introducing The Last Night, a Connecticut Witch Trials Play)
Leo Igwe (Episode 16: Witchcraft Accusations in Nigeria with Dr. Leo Igwe)
Margo Burns (Episodes 17 & 18: How Do We Know What We Know? Salem Witch-Hunt Primary Sources with Margo Burns)
- Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt
- Salem Witch Trials Legal Documents Project (video)
- The Capital Crime of Witchcraft: What the Primary Sources Tell Us (video)
- “The Salem Witchcraft Trials and Ergot, the “Moldy Bread” Hypothesis ” with Margo Burns
Kathy Hermes (Episode 19: Between God and Satan with Kathy Hermes and Beth Caruso)
- “Between God and Satan: Thomas Thornton, Witch-Hunting, and Religious Mission in the English Atlantic World, 1647–1693” in Connecticut History Review, Fall 2022
- Connecticut Explored
- “Q&A: Dr Katherine A. Hermes“
Scott R. Ferrara (Episode 20: Accused of Witchcraft in New York with Scott R. Ferrara)
Rep. Jane Garibay (Episode 21: Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Legislation)
Boris Gershman (Episode 22: Witchcraft Beliefs Around the World with Boris Gershman)
- Witchcraft Beliefs Around the World: An Exploratory Analysis
PLoS ONE, November 2022, 17(11), e0276872 - Witchcraft Beliefs as a Cultural Legacy of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Evidence from Two Continents
European Economic Review, February 2020, 122, 103362 - Witchcraft Beliefs and the Erosion of Social Capital: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa and Beyond
Journal of Development Economics, May 2016, 120, pp. 182–208 - Witchcraft Beliefs, Social Relations, and Development
In Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Edited by Klaus F. Zimmermann.
Cham: Springer, 2022.
Ann Little (Episode 23: Women and Witchcraft Accusations with Ann Little)
- The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright
- Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England
- Who Do You Think You Are? Jean Smart
- Who Do You Think You Are? Tom Bergeron
- Who Do You Think You Are? Zachary Levi
David Allen Lambert (Episode 24: Tracing Descent from Salem’s Accused Witches with David Allen Lambert)
Emerson W. Baker (Episode 25: Counter-Magic in Material Culture with Dr. Emerson Baker)
- A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
- The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England
- The New England Knight: Sir William Phips, 1651 – 1695
- American Beginnings: Exploration, Culture, and Cartography in the Land of Norumbega
- “Maine, Indian Land Speculation, and the Essex County Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692.” Maine History 40, 3 (2001): 158-189
Marilynne K. Roach (Episode 28: Salem Witch-Hunt with Marilynne K. Roach)
- The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-By-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege
- Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials