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

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

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

Here’s how the Salem witch trials came about—and why what happened there is still ... in which Tituba claimed she and the girls had ridden broomsticks and signed a book offered to her by the devil, ...

Halloween is almost here, and that means it's time for ghosts, supernatural creatures and, of course, witches. Perhaps the ...

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

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

Countless plays, novels, TV shows, and films are set in Salem ... Two memorials mark the witch trials: the stone Salem Witch ...

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

Agatha All Along Episode 5 “Darkest Hour / Wake Thy Power” ended with the big twist(?) reveal that “Teen” (Joe Locke) is ...

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, ...