John Putnam Demos
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John Putnam Demos is an American author and historian. He has written two books which discuss witch-hunts and has discovered that one of his own ancestors was John Putnam Senior, ancestor of the Putnam family which was prominent in the Salem witch trials.[1]
Demos was awarded the prestigious Bancroft Prize for his book Entertaining Satan.
He retired in December 2008 as the Samuel Knight Professor of History at Yale University, USA. [2]
Demos lives in Tyringham, Massachusetts and is currently working on a new book.
[edit] Works
- Entertaining Satan - Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England, Oxford University Press, London, 1982 ISBN 0-19-503378-7
- A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony
- The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America (Winner of the Ray Allen Billington Award)
- The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World
- Editor, Remarkable Providences
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