John Putnam Demos
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.
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.
Demos lives in Tyringham, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University.
Works
- , Oxford University Press, London, 1982 A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth ColonyThe Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World
- Editor, Remarkable Providences
- ''The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic''