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John Putnam Demos | |
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| Born | 1937 (age 88–89) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
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| Father | Raphael Demos |
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John Putnam Demos (/ˈdiːmoʊs/;[1] born 1937) is an American author and historian. He has written two books about 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.[2]
Early life
[edit]John Putnam Demos was born in 1937 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Greek-American philosopher Raphael Demos.
He graduated from Harvard University.
Career
[edit]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.[3]
Personal life
[edit]Demos lives in Tyringham, Massachusetts.
Works
[edit]- Entertaining Satan - Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England, Oxford University Press, London, 1982 ISBN 0-19-503378-7[4]
- 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
[edit]- ↑ John Demos: The Heathen School (Video). Event occurs at 0:02.
- ↑ "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.
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