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=Database Resources=

**//Proquest//**
The Crucible Study Guide / Knowledge Notes

Gale Student Resource Center
U.S. History in Context Student Resources in Context Gale Virtual Reference Library
 * Joe McCarthy
 * Arthur Miller

ABC-CLIO
American History Database
 * Puritanism
 * Puritan Influence in the Colonies
 * Salem With Trials
 * Salem Witch Scare
 * The Crucible
 * House Un-American Activities Committee

**//Proquest//**

 * History Study Center**

=**Internet Sites**=

The Salem Witch Craft Trials
http://www.famous-trials.com/salem //Web site sponsored by the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Law. The site includes links to a wide range of materials related to the trials//.
 * Famous American Trials: Salem Witchcraft Trials 1692**

National Geographic - Salem Witchcraft Hysteria. Interactive online game. Experience the Trial. Find out what happens if you confess to witchcraft. Find out what happens if you deny that you are a witch and claim that you are innocent. All events portrayed in this feature are based upon historical records.
 * Salem Witchcraft Hysteria**

@http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/ //The University of Virginia hosts this repository of Salem witch scare primary documents and court records.// From the Salem Witchcraft Papers. Contents: Complete court documents (Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692), Accusers, Defenders, Accused, "Afflicted Girls" (their names, place of residence, and location on map), Jurors, Puritan Ministers, and Judges.  Accused of Witchcraft. Case history of individuals accused of witchcraft, some were from Salem, Massachusetts, others from as far away as England and Germany.
 * Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project**

Discovery School - The Salem Witch Trials Attempts to show what events lead up to Salem as well as the trials themselves concisely but fairly. Discusses Puritan religion and beliefs about witchcraft, factions, expectations of children in Puritan society, 6 minute multimedia movie with good images of town, biographies of Cotton Mather, Ann Putnam, Tituba, John Proctor, Mary Easty, and Sarah Good. Fair treatment of complex subject in that the site does not stereotype events or try to explain them in too much depth. Intended as an introductory educational tool.

The Salem Witch Trials 1692: A Chronology of Events. Daily summaries of the witch trials from January 20 to November 25, 1692. Includes links to Witch Trials Memorials depicting the stones dedicated to the victims of the Salem Witch Trials.

Witchcraft Collection from Cornell University Library.

**McCarthyism**
The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents. Chapters for the 1994 book. Table of Contents: Communism and National Security: The Menace Emerges, The Growth of the Anti-Communist Network, The State Steps In: Setting the Anti-Communist Agenda, Congressional Committees and Unfriendly Witnesses, Blacklists and Other Economic Sanction, Interpreting McCarthyism, and The Legacy of McCarthyism.

Hollywood Blacklist by Dan Georgakas in Buhle, Buhle, and Georgakas, ed., __Encyclopedia of the American Left__ Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992.

How did McCarthyism limit American political debate and freedom of speech in the 1950s? Site includes a video from CNN: McCarthyism during the Cold War. Lecture Outline: McCarthyism and Conformity in 1950s America, McCarthyism and Anti-communist Paranoia, and McCarthyism's affect on Americans' lives. Questions on McCarthyism. Web Links on McCarthyism.

HUAC, McCarthy, and the Reds. A brief timeline, from 1908 to 1957 (dates of birth and death of Senator Joseph McCarthy), on House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), the role played by McCarthy against Communism. Kazan and Miller. "Long, Bitter Debate From the '50's: Views of Kazan and His Critics" by Richard Bernstein, from New York Times, May 3, 1988.

McCarthyism from PBS.

On February 9, 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy, a Republican from Wisconsin, claimed to have a list of 205 people in the State Department who were members of the American Communist Party. The possibility of communist subversion caused some people to lose their jobs when they admitted to have been Communist Party members. To save their own skins, accused Communist Party members had to expose other members of the Party during McCarthy's investigations. The ensued witch-hunt and anti-communist hysteria was known as McCarthyism.

Victor Navasky's Naming Names. A general description of Hollywood blacklisting, from Chapter 10, Degradation Ceremonies in Victor Navasky's book //Naming Names//, published by New York: Viking Press, 1980.

From Witch-hunts and Communist-hunts to Terrorist-hunts: Placing Arthur Miller's The Crucible in the Post-September 11 Power Politics