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Name
  
John Demos


Role
  
Author

John Putnam Demos httpspicslibrarythingcompicsizes969c969cb

Education
  
University of California, Berkeley (1961)

Awards
  
Bancroft Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

Nominations
  
National Book Award for Nonfiction

Books
  
The Unredeemed Captive, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft, The Heathen School: A, A Little Commonwealth: Family Lif, Circles and Lines: The Shape of

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.

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Demos was awarded the prestigious Bancroft Prize for his book Entertaining Satan. He was awarded the 1995 Francis Parkman Prize for his book The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story From Early America.

He retired in December 2008 as the Samuel Knight Professor of History at Yale University.

Demos lives in Tyringham, Massachusetts and is currently working on a new book.

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
  • 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

    • References

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