Scholars have examined the events of Salem Village in 1692 from many different angles, to document the events, explore the possible causes, and examine the implications of this outbreak of witchcraft accusations, and following trials and executions. The following is a fairly complete autobiography of works that one might consult in trying to understand these events and their aftermath.
Joseph Glanvill. "Against Modern Sadducism in the Matter of Witches and Apparitions." 1676.
Cotton Mather. "Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions." 1689.
Robert Calef. More Wonders of the Invisible World. 1700.
John Hale. Modest Inquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft. 1702.
Nathaniel Hawthorne. Main Street. 1850.
W. Elliott Woodward. Records of Salem Witchcraft. 2 volumes. 1864.
Charles W. Upham. Salem Witchcraft. 1867.
Samuel G. Drake. Annals of Witchcraft in New England and Elsewhere in the United States, from Their First Settlement. 1869.
George Lincoln Burr, editor. Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706. 1914.
Charles Sutherland Tapley. Rebecca Nurse: Saint But Witch Victim. 1930.
Marion L. Starkey. The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Inquiry into the Salem Witch Trials. 1949.
Shirley Jackson. The Witchcraft of Salem Village. 1956.
Chadwick Hanson. Witchcraft at Salem. 1969.
Leo Bonfanti. The Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692. 1971.
Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, editors. Salem-Village Witchcraft: A Documentary Record of Local Conflict in Colonial New England. 1972.
Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum. Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft. 1974.
Linnda R. Caporael. "Ergotism: The Satan loosed in Salem?" Science, volume 192.
John Demos. Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England.1982.
David C. Brown. A Guide to the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692. 1984.
Kenneth Silverman. The Life and Times of Cotton Mather. 1984.
Richard Weisman. Witchcraft, Magic, and Religion in 17th-Century Massachusetts. 1984.
Carol F. Karlsen. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England. 1987.
Enders A. Robinson. The Devil Discovered: Salem Witchcraft 1692. 1991.
Enders Robinson. Salem Witchcraft and Hawthorne's House of Seven Gables. 1992.
Richard Goodbeer. The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England. 1992.
Bernard Rosenthal. Salem Story: Reading the Witch Trials of 1692. 1993.
Frances Hill. A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials. 1995.
Elaine G. Breslaw. Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies. 1996.
Ivan Bunn and Gilbert Geiss. Trial of Witches: A Seventeenth-Century Witchcraft Prosecution. 1997.
Stephen Nissenbaum. Salem Possessed. 1997 edition.
Elizabeth Reis. Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England. 1997.
Richard B. Trask. 'The Devil hath been raised': A Documentary History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Outbreak of March 1692. 1997.
Lori Lee Wilson. The Salem Witch Trials. (How History Is Invented series.) 1997.
John Hardy Wright. Sorcery in Salem. 1999.
Frances Hill. The Salem Witch Trials Reader. 2000.
Mary Beth Norton. In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692. 2002.
Frances Hill and Karen Armstrong. A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials. 2002.
Marc Aronson. Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials. 2003.
Marilynne K. Roach. The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege. 2004.
Kai T. Erikson. Wayward Puritans: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance. 2005.
Richard Francis. Judge Sewall's Apology. 2005.
K. David Goss. The Salem Witch Trials: A Reference Guide. 2007.
Gretchen A. Adams. The Specter of Salem: Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America. 2009.
William H. Cooke. Justice at Salem: Reexamining the Witch Trials. 2009.
Bernard Rosenthal, editor. Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt. 2009.
Diane E. Foulds. Death in Salem: The Private Lives Behind the 1692 Witch Hunt. 2010.
