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"12 of History's Baffling Mass Hysteria Outbreaks." History Collection. https://historycollection.com/12-historys-baffling-mass-hysteria-outbreaks/. Accessed 6 Jan. 2024.

Beam, Sara. "Shivaree." Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society. Encyclopedia.com. https://www.encyclopedia.com/literature-and-arts/art-and-architecture/architecture/shivaree. Accessed 6 Jan. 2024.

Cutlip, Kimbra. “In 1868, Two Nations Made a Treaty, the U.S. Broke It and Plains Indian Tribes Are Still Seeking Justice.” Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Institution, 7 Nov. 2018, www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/1868-two-nations-made-treaty-us-broke-it-and-plains-indian-tribes-are-still-seeking-justice-180970741/. Accessed 6 Jan. 2024.

"Dancing Plagues and Mass Hysteria." The Psychologist, vol. 22, no. 7, https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-22/edition-7/dancing-plagues-and-mass-hysteria. Accessed 6 Jan. 2024.

"Debate Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault - On Human Nature [Subtitled]." YouTube, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wfNl2L0Gf8]. Accessed Jan 14. 2024.

Frankl, Viktor E. Man’s Search for Meaning. Translated by Ilse Lasch, Beacon Press, 2006.

Haley, James L. Sam Houston. 1st ed., University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.

“Hysteria Theme in The Crucible.” LitCharts, LitCharts LLC. https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-crucible/themes/hysteria. Accessed 6 Jan. 2024.

Kennedy, Charles A. “Early Christians and the Anchor.” The Biblical Archaeologist, vol. 38, no. 3/4, 1975, pp. 115–24. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3209591. Accessed 5 Jan. 2024.

Lebedeva, Lyudmila. “Lilith.” Arthive.

https://arthive.com/artists/63873~John_Collier/works/336527~Lilith. Accessed 6 Jan. 2024.

“A Modest Proposal.” Wikiwand. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/A_Modest_Proposal. Accessed 6 Jan. 2024.

O?uz, Abdullah, director. Mutluluk (Bliss). Kinda Film, 16 March 2007. Film.

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Translated by Leon S. Roudiez, Columbia University Press, 1982. Accessed 6 Jan. 2024.

Roland, Maria M. “The Symbolic Power of Red in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale,” Honors Thesis, Eastern Tennessee State.

https://dc.etsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1171&context=honors. Accessed 6 Jan. 2024.

“Why the Treaty of Fort Laramie Failed to Maintain Peace.” YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifq3RDUpT84. Accessed 6 Jan. 2024. (This article is an influence on the fictional “Spheres of Influence Accord” in the novel.)

Wilkinson, Alissa. “What Two Gileads can teach us about America.” Vox, 12 July 2018, https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/7/12/17555996/Handmaids-tale-gilead-marilynne-robinson-margaret-atwood. Accessed 6 Jan. 2024.

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Further Reading

"12 of History's Baffling Mass Hysteria Outbreaks." History Collection. https://historycollection.com/12-historys-baffling-mass-hysteria-outbreaks/. Accessed 6 Jan. 2024.

Beam, Sara. "Shivaree." Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society. Encyclopedia.com. https://www.encyclopedia.com/literature-and-arts/art-and-architecture/architecture/shivaree. Accessed 6 Jan. 2024.

Cutlip, Kimbra. “In 1868, Two Nations Made a Treaty, the U.S. Broke It and Plains Indian Tribes Are Still Seeking Justice.” Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Institution, 7 Nov. 2018, www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/1868-two-nations-made-treaty-us-broke-it-and-plains-indian-tribes-are-still-seeking-justice-180970741/. Accessed 6 Jan. 2024.

"Dancing Plagues and Mass Hysteria." The Psychologist, vol. 22, no. 7, https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-22/edition-7/dancing-plagues-and-mass-hysteria. Accessed 6 Jan. 2024.

"Debate Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault - On Human Nature [Subtitled]." YouTube, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wfNl2L0Gf8]. Accessed Jan 14. 2024.

Frankl, Viktor E. Man’s Search for Meaning. Translated by Ilse Lasch, Beacon Press, 2006.

Haley, James L. Sam Houston. 1st ed., University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.

“Hysteria Theme in The Crucible.” LitCharts, LitCharts LLC. https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-crucible/themes/hysteria. Accessed 6 Jan. 2024.

Kennedy, Charles A. “Early Christians and the Anchor.” The Biblical Archaeologist, vol. 38, no. 3/4, 1975, pp. 115–24. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3209591. Accessed 5 Jan. 2024.

Lebedeva, Lyudmila. “Lilith.” Arthive.

https://arthive.com/artists/63873~John_Collier/works/336527~Lilith. Accessed 6 Jan. 2024.

“A Modest Proposal.” Wikiwand. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/A_Modest_Proposal. Accessed 6 Jan. 2024.

O?uz, Abdullah, director. Mutluluk (Bliss). Kinda Film, 16 March 2007. Film.

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Translated by Leon S. Roudiez, Columbia University Press, 1982. Accessed 6 Jan. 2024.

Roland, Maria M. “The Symbolic Power of Red in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale,” Honors Thesis, Eastern Tennessee State.

https://dc.etsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1171&context=honors. Accessed 6 Jan. 2024.

“Why the Treaty of Fort Laramie Failed to Maintain Peace.” YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifq3RDUpT84. Accessed 6 Jan. 2024. (This article is an influence on the fictional “Spheres of Influence Accord” in the novel.)

Wilkinson, Alissa. “What Two Gileads can teach us about America.” Vox, 12 July 2018, https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/7/12/17555996/Handmaids-tale-gilead-marilynne-robinson-margaret-atwood. Accessed 6 Jan. 2024.

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