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Assorted References
- contribution to American literature
- history of Salem witch trials
- knowledge of variolation process
- In variolation
- opposition to Brattle
- relation to Increase Mather
- smallpox inoculations
Additional Reading
Barrett Wendell, Cotton Mather (1891, reprinted 1980); David Levin, Cotton Mather: The Young Life of the Lord’s Remembrancer, 1663–1703 (1978); Kenneth Silverman, The Life and Times of Cotton Mather (1984).
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Add new Web site: University of La Laguna - Pedro Domínguez Caballero de Rhodes - Department of English and German - Cotton Mather: The Wonders of the Invisible World (1693). | Nov 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Toronto Press Journals - Cotton Mather (1663-1728) on Ultimate Reality and Meaning. | Oct 14, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Mather Project - Biography: Cotton Mather (1662/3-1727/8). | Sep 02, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Salem Witch Museum - Cotton Mather: Villain, Bystander, or Somewhere in Between? | Jul 11, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Mar 26, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia - Cotton Mather. | Mar 20, 2024 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Feb 09, 2024 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Feb 08, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Rebus Community Press - Cotton Mather (1663-1728). | Feb 06, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - "Cotton Mather and the Multifaceted Endeavors of American Puritanism". | Nov 23, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Trials - Cotton Mather. | Jan 03, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: The University of Virginia - Salem Witch Trials - Cotton Mather. | Jan 03, 2022 | ||
| Added information on his beliefs about slavery. | Jul 27, 2020 | ||
| Added new Web site: Fire and Ice - Puritan and Reformed Writings - Cotton Mather. | Dec 20, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law - Biography of Cotton Mather. | Dec 20, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Grace and Truth.Org.Uk - Cotton Mather. | Dec 20, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Cotton Mather Home Page. | Sep 07, 2006 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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