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Here are some sites that provide relevant, generally reliable information and are excellent starting points for online research. 

This page is a work in progress; please let me know as you discover other sites you think are worthy of inclusion and I will add them!  The best way is to e-mail me the URL of a site you like, along with a brief note explaining why you think it's useful:  anne.myles@uni.edu

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Two central, linked sites based at the University of Virginia.   These will provide many of our online primary readings and should be explored fully.  I've included the chronology as a handy reference.

Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive
The Salem Witchcraft Papers (Court Records)
Salem Witch Trials Chronology

Two other first-rate web portals for online research:

17th Century Colonial New England page, focused on links to witchcraft sites, a phenomenal resource:  http://www.17thc.us/index.php?id=12.  Site includes a large annotated bibliography:  http://www.17thc.us/bibliography.php
The Salem Witchcraft Trials (Famous American Trials):  Excellent resource page with lots of historical links:  http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm

Other sites that seem worthwhile:

bullet  The Salem Witch Museum
bulletSalem Witch Trials -- Discoveryschool.com:  a site for teachers/young people:  http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/
bulletNational Geographic Salem Witch-Hunt Interactive:  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/salem/
bullet Nathaniel Hawthorne in Salem -- good resources if you're interested in this topic
bulletOn the ever-popular "ergot poisoning" theory:   Caporael's original 1976 article in Science http://web.utk.edu/~kstclair/221/ergotism.html;  a site exploring the attractions of and problems with the theory:  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_salem/index.html; a vigorous critique of the theory by Bernard Rosenthal:  http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/SALEM-WITCH/2001-07/0996166999

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