Sporadic Thoughts

For the Essay
* Start with a brief overlook of the events in Salem in 1692
* Look at the early historians- briefly? contemporary Mather, Hutchinson, fruad and enlightenment.
* I'm thinking the main emphasis for my essay will be more modern historians, because I think they have more depth and will allow me to talk about cross-disciplinary studies. I can refer back to older historians through the analysis of the modern ones, especially if i'm trying to determine the historians roots, or what kind of methodology they are applying.
* This in turn will allow me to look at the historiography component of the Extension course- Thinking about it, I reckon I'll be using Ranke, Annales and Post-modernism for sure!
* I'm still tossing up between how many different ones to use. I'm actually confused as to what the hell I'm even doing! I think I may end up using ergotism after all, even if it has been deemed 'irrelevant' by Monsieur Crossie. Then I can look at the contrasting article by Spanos. I also really like James E. Kences, who explored the effect the threat of Indian attack could have had on the psyche of New Englanders, especially the afflicted girls in his article 'Some Unexplored Relationships of Essex County Witchcraft to the Indian Wars of 1675 and 1687' (1984)