For Adult Readers

• Salem History
• Bentley, William. The Diary of William Bentley. Essex Institute, 1905.
• Boyer, Charles, and Stephen Nissenbaum. Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft. Harvard University Press, 1974.
• Boyer, Charles, and Stephen Nissenbaum. Salem-Village Witchcraft: A Documentary Record of Local Conflict in Colonial New England. Northeastern University Press, 1972.
• Garland, Jospeh E. The North Shore. Commonwealth Editions, 1998.
• Goss, K. David; Richard B. Trask; Bryant F. Tolles Jr.; Joseph Flibbert; and Jim McAllister. Salem: Cornerstones of a Historic City. Memoirs Unlimited, 1999.
• Hurd, Hamilton. History of Essex County, Massachusetts. J. W. Lewis and Company, 1888.
• King, Caroline Howard. When I Lived in Salem. Stephen Day Press, 1937.
• Jones, Arthur B. The Salem Fire. Gorham Press, 194?.
• Maloney, Joan M. Salem Normal School 1854-1905: A Tradition of Excellence. Tapestry Press, 1990.
• McAllister, Jim. From Naumkeag to Witch City. Commonwealth Editions, 2000.
• Perley, Sidney. History of Salem (3 vols.) Sidney Perley, 1924-29.
• Phillips, James Duncan. Salem in the Seventeenth Century. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1933.
• Phillips, James Duncan. Salem in the Eighteenth Century. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937.
• Putnam, Eleanor. Old Salem. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1886.
• Robotti, Frances Diane. Chronicles of Old Salem. Newcomb and Gauss Company, 1948.
• Trask, Richard. The Devil hath been Raised: A Documentary History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Outbreak of March 1692. Yeoman Press, rev. ed., 1997.
• Winwar, C. H. and W. S. Nevins. Old Naumkeag. A. A. Smith and Company, 1877.
   
  
• Women’s History
• Abramovitz, Mimi. Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present. South End Press, 1988.
• Alcott, Louisa May. Work. Schocken Books, 1977.
• Blair, Karen J. The Clubwoman as Feminist: True Womanhood Redefined, 1868-1914. Holmes and Meier, 1980.
• Cott, Nancy F. The Bonds of Womanhood: Woman’s Sphere in New England, 1780-1835. Yale University Press, 1977.
• Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave. Basic Books, Inc., 1983.
• Drachman, Virginia B. Hospitals with a Heart: Women Doctors and the Paradox of Separatism and the New England Hospital, 1862-1969. Cornell University Press, 1984.
• DuBois, Ellen. Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America, 1848-1869. Cornell University Press, 1978.
• Ehrenreich, Barbara, and Deirdre English. Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers. The Feminist Press, undated.
• Emerson, Dorothy May, ed. Standing Before Us: Unitarian Universalist Women and Social Reform, 1776-1936. Skinner House Books, 1999.
• Faxon, Alicia, and Sylvia Moore, eds. Pilgrims and Pioneers: New England Women in the Arts. Midmarch Press, 1987.
• Giddings, Paula. When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America. William Morrow Company, 1984.
• Glazer, Penina, and Miriam Slater. Unequal Colleagues: The Entrance of Women into the Professions, 1890-1940. Rutgers University Press, 1987.
• Groneman, Carol, and Mary Beth Norton. “To Toil the Livelong Day”: America’s Women at Work, 1780-1980. Cornell University Press, 1987.
• Juster, Susan. Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics & Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New England. Cornell University Press, 1994.
• Katzman, David. Seven Days a Week: Women and Domestic Service in Industrializing America. University of Illinois Press, 1981.
• Kaufman, Polly Welts; Bonnie Hurd Smith; Mary Howland Smoyer; and Susan Wilson. Boston Women’s Heritage Trail Guidebook. Curious Traveller Press, 1999.
• Kerber, Linda K. Women of the Republic. University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
• Kerber, Linda K. and Jane Sherron Dehart. Women’s America: Refocusing the Past. Oxford University Press, 1991.
• Kessler-Harris, Sharon. Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States. Oxford University Press, 1982.
• Kraditor, Aileen. Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1890-1920. Columbia University Press, 1965.
• Lerner, Gerda. Black Women in White America: A Documentary History. Vintage Books, rev. ed., 1973.
• Melosh, Barbara. The Physician’s Hand: Work, Culture and Conflict in American Nursing. Temple University Press, 1982.
• Milkman, Ruth, ed. Women’s Work and Protest: A Century of U. S. Women’s Labor History. Routledge, 1985.
• Moynihan, Ruth Barnes, and Laurie Crumpacker, eds. Second to None: A Documentary History of American Women. University of Nebraska Press, 1993.
• Muncy, Robyn. Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform 1890-1935. Oxford University Press, 1991.
• Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women. Little, Brown and Company, 1980.
• Norwood, Stephen H. Labor’s Flaming Youth: Telephone Operators and Worker Militancy, 1878-1923. University of Illinois Press, 1990.
• Porter, Susan, ed. Women of the Commonwealth: Work, Family, and Social Change in Nineteenth Century Massachusetts. University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.
• Rollins, Judith. Between Women: Domestics and Their Employers. Temple University Press, 1985.
• Rossi, Alice. The Feminist Papers. Northeastern University Press, 1973.
• Rothman, Sheila. Women’s Proper Place: A History of Changing Ideals and Practices, 1870 to the Present. Basic Books, 1978.
• Scheick, William J. Authority and Female Authority in Colonial America. University Press of Kentucky, 1998.
• Schlissel, Lillian. Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey. Schocken Books, rev. ed., 1992.
• Solomon, Barbara Miller. In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women in Higher Education in America. Yale University Press, 1985.
• Stark, Suzanne J. Female Tars: Women Aboard Ship in the Age of Sail. Naval Institute Press, 1996.
• Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. Good Wives: Images and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England 1650-1750. rev. ed., Vintage Books, 1991.
• Wolf, Beverly Hungry. The Ways of My Grandmothers. William Morrow Company, 1980.
   
• Biographical
• Billington, Ray Allen, ed. Journal of Charlotte Forten: A Free Negro in the Slave Era. The Dryden Press/Collier Books, 1953.
• Harris, Sharon M. Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray. Oxford University Press, 1995.
• Kerr, Andrea Moore. Lucy Stone: Speaking Out for Equality. Rutgers University Press, 1992.
• Lerner, Gerda. The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women’s Rights and Abolition. Schocken Books, 1967.
• Robinson, William Henry. Phillis Wheatley. Old South Association, 1990.
• Ronda, Bruce. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: A Reformer On Her Own Terms. Harvard University Press, 1999.
• Smith, Bonnie Hurd. From Gloucester to Philadelphia in 1790: Observations, Anecdotes and Thoughts from the Letters of Judith Sargent Murray. Curious Traveller Press, 1998.
• Tharp, Louise Hall. The Peabody Sisters of Salem. Little, Brown and Company, 1950.
• Wilson, Susan. The Literary Trail of Greater Boston. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
   
• African American History
• Billington, Ray Allen, ed. Journal of Charlotte Forten: A Free Negro in the Slave Era. The Dryden Press/Collier Books, 1953.
• Fisher, Dexter. The Third Woman: Minority Women Writers of the United States. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980.
• Giddings, Paula. When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America. William Morrow Company, 1984.
• Lerner, Gerda. Black Women in White America: A Documentary History. Vintage Books, rev. ed., 1973.
• Kaplan, Sidney, and Emma Nogrady Kaplan. The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution. University of Massachusetts Press, 1989.
• Pierson, William D. Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England. University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.
• Robinson, William Henry. Phillis Wheatley. Old South Association, 1990.
   
• Native American History
• Fisher, Dexter. The Third Woman: Minority Women Writers of the United States. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980.
• Simmons, William. Spirit of the New England Tribes: Indian History and Folklore, 1620-1984. University Press of New England, 1986.
• Wolf, Beverly Hungry. The Ways of My Grandmothers. William Morrow Company, 1980.
   
• Reference
• Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 1-3: Edward T. and Janet James, eds., Harvard University Press, 1971. Vol. 4: Barbara Sicherman and Carol Hurd Green, eds., Harvard University Press, 1980.
• Nylander, Jane C. Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home. Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

For Young Readers

• Johnston, Johanna. They Led the Way: 14 American Women. Scholastic, Inc., 1973.
• Krensky, Stephen. Witch Hunt: It Happened in Salem Village. Random House, 1989.
• “Old-time Schools in America,” in Cobblestone: The History Magazine for Young People. Cobblestone Publishing, Nov. 1981.
• Petry, Ann. Tituba of Salem Village. Harper Trophy, 1964.
• Roach, Marilynne K. In the Days of the Salem Witchcraft Trials. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996.
• “Salem and the East Indies Trade,” in Cobblestone: The History Magazine for Young People. Cobblestone Publishing, Sept. 1988.
• Weidt, Maryann N. Revolutionary Poet: A Story about Phillis Wheatley. Carolrhoda Books, 1997.
   
• Reference
• McElroy, Lorie Jenkins, ed. Women’s Voices: A Documentary History of Women in America. UXL/Gale, 1997.