To aid classroom or home study using Real Reads books, here are some links to other websites which will help you to gain a greater understanding of Nathaniel Hawthorne and the world he describes in The Scarlet Letter.
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This is the fascinating interactive site of Plimoth Plantation, a ‘living museum’ that recreates the settlement established by seventeenth-century English colonists in Massachusetts.
teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/researchstarters/plymouth
Information about the Plymouth Colony, including links to details of Boston and the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
An excellent resource for information on the famous Witch Trials, and about life in colonial Massachusetts.