A descendant of a victim of the Salem witch trials confronts contemporary traumas in Sarah Ruhl's Becky Nurse of Salem at Shattered Globe.

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

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

I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what ...

That text was spread throughout the Western world thanks to the newly invented printing press.

The Haverhill Public Library hosts a discussion, “A Salem Witch: The Trial, Execution and Exoneration of Rebecca Nurse,” with ...

Agatha All Along episode 5 featured several more clues suggesting Aubrey Plaza's new MCU character might actually be Marvel's ...

Linda Reiter stars as the title character in Shattered Globe Theatre’s production of “Becky Nurse of Salem,” as a tour guide ...

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 in Salem, ...

The Sandwich Public Library will host local author Dan Gagnon as he discusses his book, “A Salem Witch: The Trial, Execution ...

Reproductive Rites’ unearths the untold story of abortion witch hunts, from the days of Socrates through the Salem Witch ...

In his piece about the film, Stephen King argues that time and pop culture have sucked some of the scariness out of Night Of ...