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This website is dedicated to The Crucible by Arthur Miller, as well as background history to do with the play and the time period. We will discuss the content within the play, the McCarthy era, McCarthy trials, and a comparison of the dialogue of The Crucible play, and the McCarthy trial.

This table was taken directly from (The McCarthy Hearings and Their Relation to the Salem Witch Trials) As shown above, there are many...

In the table above, I have highlighted areas where the script of the Crucible and the McCarthy hearings were incredibly similar -...

Salem Witch Trials (1600s) Lynching in the United States (1860-1960 The Red Scare and The Palmer Raids (1919-1920) Japanese American...

The Hollywood Blacklist was a list of people in the entertainment industry suspected to have radical belief and communist ties. Actors,...

“They both struck fear in the people due to the "guilty until you confess" attitude which ruled the courts. In Salem the only way to...

This source has been used by millions of teachers before they start teaching about The Crucible. It is a great 40 minute documentary...

In the Salem Witch Trials and the Mccarthy hearings, both the accusers were famous people, Abigail was the niece of Parris, a revered man...

Page 3 “In 1692 the Massachusetts Bay Colony executed fourteen women, five men, and two dogs for witchcraft.” “What discomfited those who...

This short video shows a group of high school students depicting the Salem Witch Trials in an outlandish and comical way. As immature as...

This video is extremely moving - showing exactly what kind of horrors were forced upon Hollywood. At 2:15 Dalton Trumbo is being...