An installation at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., uses artifacts and primary sources to tell the true story of the city’s notorious episode of paranoia and persecution.

A new study discovered what started the 'witch craze' that spurred 300 years of persecution, including the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts. It turns out the printing press is to blame.

Kate Messner tells readers what really happened during the Salem Witch Trials in this recent entry in her History Smashers ... Messner proves her credibility with additions of primary sources, ...

I've been studying the Salem witch trials on my own since I was 15, ... We point out historic sites, we talk about cemeteries and things like that, but a lot of what we do is use primary sources.

Elizabeth Johnson Jr. is — officially — not a witch. Until last week, the Andover, Mass., woman, who confessed to practicing witchcraft during the Salem witch trials, was the only remaining ...

According to local historical researcher Marilynne K. Roach’s 2002 book, “The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege,” some of the afflicted girls claimed that ...

The Salem Witch Trials Memorial is lined with the pleas of the victims. Photo by Charlie Weber. It was during the exceedingly hot summer of 1692 when Puritan judges in Salem, an English settlement ...

An installation at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., uses artifacts and primary sources to tell the true story of the city’s notorious episode of paranoia and persecution.

Last conviction in Salem witch trials is cleared 329 years later. The exoneration of Elizabeth Johnson Jr., the last person whose name was not officially cleared, came from the efforts of an ...