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

The 15 th through 17 th centuries saw a wave of “witch hunts” break out across the Western world: the Salem Witch Trials in ...

How one of humanity’s most important inventions fuelled deadly witch hunts in Europe - Early books and influence of nearby ...

In her Newberry Library course, Kay Daly examines the depiction of witches onstage, from the 17th century to the present.

The Connecticut Witch Trials occurred from 1647 to 1663, more than four decades before the trials in Salem, Massachusetts. “The witch trials in Connecticut were extremely deadly. The first seven ...

This myth was promoted by the Egyptologist Margaret Murray in the early 20th century and was then debunked by the historian C. L'Estrange Ewen almost as soon as it appeared. It was founded on a ...

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

The sudden emergence of witch trials in early modern Europe may have been fueled by one of humanity's most significant intellectual milestones: the invention of the printing press in 1450. A ...

In Colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693, a series of hearings and prosecutions accused innocent people of ...

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 ...