Here’s how the Salem witch trials came about—and why what happened there ... Like other cities within English-held Massachusetts Bay Colony, Salem was peopled by Puritan settlers. Their daily lives ...

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

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

Massachusetts Bay Colony Gov. William Phips effectively ended the Salem witch trials after his wife was accused of witchcraft. He put an end to spectral evidence (i.e., supernatural evidence or ...

While Salem is the most infamous setting, witch hunts and trials existed throughout the Massachusetts Bay Colony and parts of ...

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

It is rather difficult to top a witch ... trials were deemed lawful because of the "legal failings, mass paranoia, and Puritan religious and societal rules" that took place in Salem, Massachusetts.

The Massachusetts legislature may soon write the final chapter in the strange story of a controversy which rocked the staid colony of ... history--the Salem witch trials. For all the notoriety ...

While best known for its notorious witch trials in the late 1600s, Salem, Massachusetts, has a lot more to offer. These Salem tours offer an in-depth look at everything related to the trials ...