The Crucible

Recommended Resources

Print Books

Look in our catalog to find books that may have articles on your topic. We have some suggested print books on the table.

Databases and eBooks:
Our databases will import your citation directly into your Noodletools. Wait, what? That's awesome!

Using the Databases and eBooks from Home? View the Digital Resources Logins and Passwords page. You'll need to sign in with your @apps to view.

Gale in Context - U.S History (password link):  Using the GIC: U.S. database, you can investigate many related articles to the Salem Witch Trials time period in U.S. History. Click on the link above to access the main article and many other related articles in this database. 

World History: The Modern Era:  Find articles such as Witchcraft in Europe. and a few on Puritanism. (password link)

Gale Lit Finder:   A short biography of Arthur Miller

Free Websites

A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials: One town’s strange journey from paranoia to pardon - Excellent hyperlinked overview of the trial. The why and how and our "enduring enthrallment" with this event in our history, published by the Smithsonian Magazine!

The Salem Witch Trials: The Causes, How it Spread, and its Legacy by the History Channel (starts with an annoying ad though... boo). 

The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 by the Salem, Massachusetts Office of Tourism

Citations on Noodletools (in your Clever)

Slides on Creating a project, citing databases articles and books in NT.

Databases will create the citation for you! Free websites, you need to fill in all the fields you can. 

-How to Fill in Fields for a Regular Webpage on NT

-Screencast: How to add a Website to Your Noodletools (Quick)

**Once you share your works cited, your teacher and the librarians always see your "live" version. They can comment on them and grade them without you needing to print out anything.

If needed for this project: 

How to Format Internal Citations (brief overview)

How to Format Internal Citations (Complete explanation with examples)

You can also 'Quick Add' a book, using the ISBN #. For free websites, you'll need to fill in the fields.