The Witches: Salem, 1692, by Stacy Schiff, is a historical work of nonfiction that reads like a twisting, turning mystery. Schiff pulls back the curtain on this bizarre episode in American history ...

At first glance, the Salem witch trials of 1692 seem like a putrid, horrifying excrescence straight out of medieval Europe. Not only were many innocents hanged, but one victim, Giles Corey, was ...

In 1692, writes Stacy Schiff in her penetrating new book on the Salem witch trials, “New Englanders lived very much in the dark.” Their days were filled with hard work and prayer, their sky ...

Just in time for Halloween, Stacy Schiff's mesmerizing The Witches: Salem, 1692 is a prime candidate for scariest book of the year. Author of the acclaimed Cleopatra: A Life and winner of the ...

In February 1692, strange illness struck two young girls in Salem, ... Simple History. Salem 1692 – The Origins of Witch Hunt Madness. Posted: February 21, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025.

It was 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts. Witches were on trial — but so were the town’s dogs. by Bridget Marshall and The Conversation. Oct. 19, 2024. Christine_Kohler/iStock via Getty Images Plus.

As a quest by the townspeople of Salem, Mass. to rid their community of members they believed to be unfit and unholy additions, the 1692-93 Salem witch trials involved a series of hearings and ...

Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” is required reading in nearly every high school classroom, placing the village of Salem, Massachusetts, well within the sphere of pop-culture awareness. In Pulitzer ...

By summer the Salem jail had filled with witches of both genders and all ages, from a toddler to a grandmother. The hysteria radiated outward, snaring other communities, such as Andover and Ipswich.