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

It’s one of the oldest documented parts of our state’s history, and also one of the darkest. The Connecticut Witch Trials ...

While Salem is famous for its witch trials, Connecticut’s history is ... no longer be accepted in a court of law.” Those involved with the Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project would ...

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

In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt made Columbus Day a federal holiday at the urging of prominent Italian American ...

Patrick Clancy’s wife killed their children during a postpartum mental-health crisis. Prosecutors describe a clear-headed ...

Just witness the very public burst of grief over the death of Anne Rice, famous for writing “Interview with the Vampire.” ...

Rumors abound about Satanism. Its adherents are often portrayed as evil, bloodthirsty deviants in popular culture. But that's ...

Dogs appeared several times during testimonies typically because an accused witch was believed to have had a dog who would do ...

Efforts have ramped up to save one of the most important sites linked to the Salem Witch Trials that's still standing today. A Change.org petition to save Ingersoll's Tavern at 199 Hobart St. in ...

More specifically, that means the Salem witch trials of 1692, wherein young women were convicted of being something that does not actually exist. More than a dozen of them were hung but that has ...