Search - List of Books by John Putnam Demos
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.
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.
Demos lives in Tyringham, Massachusetts and is currently working on a new book.
- 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
- The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World
- Editor, Remarkable Providences
Total Books: 8