Books written by John Demos
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A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony
When John Curtice of Scituate died without leaving a will in 1680, the Court moved to settle his property among his four siblings.” Interestingly enough, the eldest surviving brother got a double share. The common practice of the Court ...
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Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
With a new Preface, the Bancroft Prize-winning "Entertaining Satan" puts forth a broad view of witchcraft and looks at its place around the world, from ancient times to the present. 3 maps.
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The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic
Goodwin, Cherokees in Transition, 105-49; See also McLoughlin, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic, 18–22; Woodward, The Cherokees, chapter 5; and Corkran, The Cherokee Frontier, chapters 10–15. For a detailed picture of ...
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The Enemy Within: A Short History of Witch-hunting
The Enemy Within chronicles the most prominent witch-hunts of the Western world?women and men who were targeted by suspicious neighbors and accused of committing horrific crimes by supernatural means?and shows how the fear of witchcraft has ...
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The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
Nominated for the National Book Award and winner of the Francis Parkman Prize.
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The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
The result of their efforts so far is deeply disappointing : three or four captives released and returned ( by land ) , a few others promised , others seen but not promised , and many not seen even once . They decide to go back to ...
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The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-hunting in the Western World
A cultural history of witch-hunting from the ancient world through the McCarthy era traces the factors that contribute to outbreaks of cultural paranoia and how people were able to accept hysteria-based beliefs about unlikely supernatural ...
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Remarkable Providences, 1600-1760
Remarkable Providences, 1600-1760
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Artful History: A Practical Anthology
With a sparse nearby population pool from which Maverick could hire servants to help his wife with household duties and their children (in addition to adopting Thompson's children, he fathered three of his own), chattel labor might have ...
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Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
(See the estate of Roger Haskell, of Beverly, Mass., in The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, II, 87-88.) ... and Testament of William Morse of Newbury, Mass,” in Morse, Memorial of the Family of Morse, part one, 96-97.
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CIRCLES AND LINES
In this intimate, engaging book, John Demos offers an illuminating portrait of how colonial Americans, from the first settlers to the postrevolutionary generation, viewed their life experiences.
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Artful History: A Practical Anthology
This book gathers some of the most compelling efforts to make history writing eloquent, stirring, and memorable, demonstrating that even the most rigorous scholarship can take on a wide range of creative forms.
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The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic
Award-winning historian John Demos tells the astonishing and moving story of a unique missionary project, which probes the very roots of American identity.
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The Enemy Within: A Short History of Witch-hunting
The Enemy Within chronicles the most prominent witch-hunts of the Western world?women and men who were targeted by suspicious neighbors and accused of committing horrific crimes by supernatural means?and shows how the fear of witchcraft has ...
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The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic
Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award The astonishing story of a unique missionary project—and the America it embodied—from award-winning historian John Demos.
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Ombres du silence
One of Greece's leading photographers, John Demos captures the spirit of the people. He pictures the traditional life of Greece. These are people who simply do what they have always...
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Past, Present, and Personal: The Family and the Life Course in American History
The author of a landmark study of Pilgrim family life called A Little Commonwealth and the Bancroft Prizewinning Entertaining Satan here presents a major contribution to the rapidly growing literature...