John Putnam Demos is an American author and historian. He has written two books that discuss witch hunts and has discovered that one of his ancestors was John Putnam Senior, a member of the Putnam family that was prominent in the Salem witch trials.[1]
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.[2]
Demos lives in Tyringham, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University.
See also- Raphael Demos (father)
- 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
- ^ "Spellbound" -Yale Alumni Magazine, Jan. 2009 Archived 2010-12-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Entertaining the Devil in Connecticut - New York Times
- ^ Rakove, Jack N. (19 September 1982). "Review: Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England by John Putnam Demos". NY Times.
- Appearances on C-SPAN
