The Digital Catalyst

This information was sent on a listserv recently regarding resources for the Arthur Miller book, The Crucible.

This is link is about the witch trials themselves.

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SALEM.HTM

So is this from Discovery

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/

This link provides background on McCarthy and the House on UnAmerican Activities committee which most intellectuals saw as threatening to American ideals and liberty.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmccarthyism.htm

Another link to McCarthyism from PBS:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/mccarthyism.html

Arthur Miller discusses why he wrote The Crucible.

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/miller-mccarthyism.html

More about the play and McCarthyism:

http://college.hmco.com/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/miller.html