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John Demos

John Demos is the author of several books about colonial America, and is completing a study of witch-hunts. He teaches at Yale.

Selected bibliography

  • Circles and Lines: The Shape of Life in Early America (2004)
  • The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America (1994)
  • Past, Present and Future: Family and the Life Course in American History (1986)
  • Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of New England (1983)
  • Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony (1971)

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