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Interviews, panel discussions, talks, documentaries, and more.

People & Places

The Corpse in the Cellar: or the Posthumous Adventures of Sheriff George Corwin by Marilynne K. Roach (History Camp 2018)

The Making of Witch City panel discussion with Emerson Baker; Donna Seger, professor of history, SSU; Bethany Jay, associate professor of history, SSU; Steve Matchak, professor of geography, SSU; and Marilynne K. Roach, author of The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege (Salem’s Trials: Lessons and Legacies of 1692, SSU symposium 2017)

Salem’s Gallows Hill Project by Marilynne K. Roach (History Camp 2019)

Site of Salem Witch Hangings Discovered (2016)

The Wardwell Family in the 1692 Witch Trials by Margo Burns, North Andover Historical Society (2016)

Topics

Behind the Devil’s Shield: Counter-Magic in Early New England by Alyssa G. A. Conary (History Camp 2018)

The Capital Crime of Witchcraft: What the Sources Tell Us by Margo Burns, project manager for the Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt (Salem’s Trials: Lessons and Legacies of 1692, SSU symposium 2017)

Ergot – What a long strange trip it has been -The Moldy Bread Myth by Margo Burns (Witch House, 2018)

Salem Witchcraft in American Landscape and Memory by Kenneth Foote, professor of geography, University of Connecticut, author of Shadowed Ground: America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy (Salem’s Trials: Lessons and Legacies of 1692, SSU symposium 2017)

The Salem Witchcraft Trials and Ergot, the “Moldy Bread” Hypothesis by Margo Burns (History Camp 2018)

Overviews

Bewitchment in Salem: The Real Story with Richard Trask, Marilynne Roach, Katherine Howe, and Emerson Baker (2014)

Mary Beth Norton on the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 (2012)

NightSide: Emerson Baker Looks at Salem’s Past (radio, 2014)

Our First Dance with the Devil with Marilynne Roach, Emerson Baker, Stacy Schiff, and Katherine Howe (radio, 2015)

Salem Witch Trials 101 (includes symposium opening remarks) by Emerson W. Baker, professor of history at SSU, author of A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience.

Just Google it and you’ll find plenty more!