Margo Burns

Margo Burns is a historian (A.B., Mount Holyoke College, 1980, M.A., University of New Hampshire, 1991) specialising in the Salem witch trials and related events, especially those in North Andover, whose historiographical neglect she endeavours to amend.^[1] She is an Associate Editor and Project Manager of the book Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt (Bernard Rosenthal, Editor, Cambridge University Press, 2009). She currently resides in New Hampshire.

Although not directly related to any of North Andover's witchcraft-accused, Burns is the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great granddaughter of Rebecca Nurse, one of the foremost protagonists of the trials in Salem;^[2] indeed, it was Burns's initial interest in that controversy that led her to explore its North Andover analogue. She puts the total accused at 153.^[3]

References

• Applegate, Sally. "Why did witch history overlook North Andover?" North Andover Citizen, 24 October 2008. http://www.wickedlocal.com/northandover/archive/x398378214/Why-did-witch-history-overlook-North-Andover
• Bridgman, Pat. "Don't believe everything you read in the (Salem witchcraft) papers". Newsletter of the Rebecca Nurse Homestead Preservation Society, Summer 2006. http://www.rebeccanurse.org/RNH/Newsletter/summer06.pdf
• Burns, Margo, and Bernard Rosenthal. "Examination of the Records of the Salem Witch Trials". William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 65, No. 3 (2008). pp. 401–422. http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/wm/65.3/burns.html
• Chase, Elibet Moore. "Trials and Errors". University of New Hampshire Magazine, Spring 2004. http://unhmagazine.unh.edu/sp04/trials_and_errors.html
• Messenger, Brian. "Researcher unearths Andover's role in witchcraft trials." The Lawrence Eagle-Tribune, 26 October 2008. http://www.eagletribune.com/punews/local_story_299234844.html
• Rosenthal, Bernard, ed., et al. Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt. Cambridge UP, 2009. ISBN 9780521661669

Notes

1. ^ Applegate 2008.
2. ^ Applegate 2008.
3. ^ Applegate 2008.

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