Oxford LibGuides: Witchcraft & the law in early modern Europe & USA: North America

North America

As well as Bodleian History location, SOLO searches may reveal that the Vere Harmsworth Library (University of Oxford's principal research library for US studies) has useful material too. Examples in box to right.

Early American Imprints - Evans 1639-1800

Alternative name: News Bank

A major digital collection of full-text early printed American imprints (1639-1800), compiled originally in the American Bibliography by Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Charles Evans' American Bibliography.
The collection of 37,000+ imprints embraces every aspect of life in 17th and 18th century America (history, literary, religion, witchcraft, agriculture, foreign affairs, temperance, etc.). Genre of material is very wide-ranging. In addition to printed books, pamphlets and broadsides, the collection also covers anything from advertisements to chapbooks, diaries to gazetteers, and hymnals to wills.

Oxford handbook of witchcraft in early modern Europe and colonial America
Old-time blue laws : from the records of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, (including the witchcraft code)
Narratives of the witchcraft cases 1648-1706
Goody Garlick (1658)
Free resource. Overview of trial of Elizabeth Garlick of Easthampton New York by Smithsonian Institute
A brief history of the Salem Witch Trials (1692)
Free resource. From Smithsonian Institute.
Salem Witchcraft Trials (1692)
Free resource. One of the Famous Trials series by Douglas O. Linder (2013) University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law.

Storm of Witchcraft : the Salem trials and the American experience by Emerson W. Baker
Call Number: KFM2478.8.W5 BAK 2015 Upper Gladstone Link
ISBN: 019989034X
Publication Date: 2014
Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
The ruin of all witches : life and death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill.
Call Number: Click title to see if it has arrived in the Bodleian History Faculty Library
ISBN: 9780241413388
Publication Date: 2021
On order Nov 2021
Science and Justice: The Massachusetts Witchcraft Trials by Sanford J. Fox
Call Number: Open Access book available free to anyone with internet connection
ISBN: 9781421430430
Publication Date: 1968 (republished 2019)
Print copy is at KA70.S3.FOX 1968 if preferred

Salem in particular

There is a specific subject heading for this instance Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History -- 17th century

You may find that the Bodleian Vere Harmsworth Library has the only Oxford copy for this topic!

Bodleian Vere Harmsworth Library
The Vere Harmsworth Library (VHL) houses the University’s principal research collection relating to the history of the United States. Please visit the official website - via this link - for opening hours, services etc

The Salem witchcraft papers : verbatim transcripts of the legal documents of the Salem witchcraft outbreak of 1692 by Boyer, Paul S ; Nissenbaum, Stephen;
Call Number: Vere Harmsworth Library KFM 2478.8 .W5 S24 1977
ISBN: 0306707555
Publication Date: 1977
3 volumes
The Salem Witch Hunt: a brief history with documents by Richard Godbeer
Call Number: Vere Harmsworth Library BF 1576 .G63 2011
ISBN: 0312484550
Publication Date: 2011