If you've ever looked at a full moon and wondered if werewolves are real, you aren't alone. For centuries, the idea of a half ...

New research shows that the printing press, invented by Johannes Gutenberg, helped spread conspiracies that fueled the Salem ...

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The history of Halloween goes back at least 2,000 years, to the Celtic pagan festival of Samhain (pronounced “sow-un”).

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It’s one of the oldest documented parts of our state’s history, and also one of the darkest. The Connecticut Witch Trials occurred from 1647 to 1663, more than four decades before the trials ...

Take this quiz and find out. While the Salem witch trials are the most prominent in history, they were preceded by other witchcraft hysteria. In 1590, Agnes Sampson was brought to trial on charges ...

Each week we pause to ponder the truths available to us from the pages of history. We browse through the annals of the ...

Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. The advent of the printing press fuelled the spread of misinformation and the emergence of witch trials across Europe in the second half of the 15th ...

Across the country, revelers are dressing in costumes and gliding across bodies of water on stand-up paddleboards to ring in ...

“This is a book about borders. It’s a book about physical borders, and it’s also a book about metaphysical borders,” ...