The email was sent by an emeritus Yale historian who has a focus on witchcraft and the Occult in the early American colonies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Putnam_Demos. Writings include:
Entertaining Satan - Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England, Oxford University Press, London, 1982 ISBN 0-19-503378-7[3]
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
Past, Present, and Personal: The Family and the Life Course in American History
The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic
His last book: Past, Present, and Personal --- short description:
Ranging over the entire span of American history, this book discusses such topics as the changing nature of fatherhood, child abuse, adolescent and middle-age life from colonial times to the present, and the relevance of the past for present-day policy making.
He's been a member of the Carnegie Council on Children.
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georgejefferson ago
The email was sent by an emeritus Yale historian who has a focus on witchcraft and the Occult in the early American colonies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Putnam_Demos. Writings include:
Entertaining Satan - Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England, Oxford University Press, London, 1982 ISBN 0-19-503378-7[3] 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 Past, Present, and Personal: The Family and the Life Course in American History The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic
georgejefferson ago
His last book: Past, Present, and Personal --- short description:
Ranging over the entire span of American history, this book discusses such topics as the changing nature of fatherhood, child abuse, adolescent and middle-age life from colonial times to the present, and the relevance of the past for present-day policy making.
He's been a member of the Carnegie Council on Children.