Although witch trials were going on from 1480 until the mid 18th century, the practice reached a crescendo in the 1690s in Salem, Massachusetts and other English colonies in the Americas. This category is for all sites about witch trials, however.
Recommended Resources
Discovery Education: Salem Witch Trials
Outlines life in the Salem of 1692, including the economic and social divisions as well as the Puritan lifestyle. Also presents the accounts of the witch hunts, and people who were instrumental in the trials.
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/
Famous American Trials: Salem Witchcraft Trials 1692
Provides accounts of some of the nineteen men and women who were convicted of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts in the summer of 1692 as well as the hundreds of others who were imprisoned and accused of the crime.
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm
National Geographic: Experience the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria
Presents a short interactive learning tool which walks the user through the Salem hysteria. Also has a section which contains questions and answers of an expert, free postcards, and a list of resources.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/salem/
Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive
Displays an archive of court records and transcripts, record books, personal letters, and maps of the Salem witch trials, as well as contemporary writings on Increase Mather, John Hale, and George Lincoln Burr, among others.
http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/
Examines the seeds of the hysteria which enabled the witch trials, the results of that hysteria, and the trial of Goodwife Martha Corey.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/salem.htm
