Elizabeth Johnson Jr., a woman convicted of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s, was finally exonerated after years of petitioning by Massachusetts teacher Carrie LaPierre and ...

Witches is a cautionary reminder that the atrocities of Salem will always be with us, ready to re-emerge amid a perfect storm of paranoia, panic, and collective sense of crusading righteousness.

Johnson was accused of witchcraft in 1692 along with more than 200 other women and men in Salem. Of those convicted, 19 were hanged and four others died in prison -- Johnson was set to be executed ...

That's the spooky idea Linnda R. Caporael floated in her 1976 paper Ergotism: The Satan Loosed In Salem.In search of a concrete explanation for the witch-hunting mania, she stumbled upon a theory ...

It's never too late to right a historical wrong -- even if that restoration of justice comes nearly 330 years later.Elizabeth Johnson Jr., a woman convicted of witchcraft during the Salem witch ...

In this painting, “Witch Hill/ The Salem Martyr” by Thomas Satterwhite Nobel in 1869, the town girl has been found guilty of witchcraft and is now walking to the gallows with the hangman and ...

Despite numerous debunkings, the idea that Salem's "witches" burned at the stake persists everywhere from online forums to episodes of "The Simpsons." Joan of Arc and tales of European witch hunts ...

The history of the Salem witch trials is well-known to individuals with a solid grasp of colonial-era history. (At least, it is to me. Having grown up about 35 miles from Salem, ...

Originally launched by a group of witches from Salem, Mass., during the lead-up to the 2018 midterm elections, #WitchTheVote is a cross-media initiative that identifies and promotes — as one ...

The Salem witch trials were the largest witchcraft outbreak in American history, resulting from a perfect storm of catastrophes. Taking place in 1692 and 1693, ...

Johnson was accused of witchcraft in 1692 along with more than 200 other women and men in Salem. Of those convicted, 19 were hanged and four others died in prison -- Johnson was set to be executed ...