Statistics is just one way to tell the tale of the infamous Salem witch trials. In just 16 months between February 1692 and May 1693, up to 200 people—mostly women—were accused of practicing ...

Kirstie Alley leads an all-star cast in a drama recalling the 1692 Puritan witch-hunt that tarnished the Massachusetts village. Rev. Samuel Parris: Henry Czerny. Rebecca Nurse: Shirley MacLaine.

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

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

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

her trial technically wasn't part of the Salem witch trials. Her trial has a few similarities to the real-life Salem witch trials, but the biggest difference is that it has a huge impact.

The Connecticut Witch Trials occurred from 1647 to 1663, more than four decades before the trials in Salem, Massachusetts. ...

On this day in 1690, "Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick" attracted colonial officials' ire by repeating a scandalous rumor and condemning a British alliance with the Mohawk Meilan ...

Kirstie Alley was best known for her roles in Cheers and Drop Dead Gorgeous, but her favorite role was being a mom to her two kids. The actress, who died at 71 from cancer, was a mother to two ...

If you're heading to Salem, you should set aside some time for a visit to the Salem Witch Trials Memorial. Built to honor the victims who died during the 1692 witchcraft hysteria, the memorial ...