Bridget Bishop was the first to be executed for witchcraft because of the Salem witch trials. Bridget Bishop, a woman considered to have questionable morals, was the first to be tried and executed ...

Historians, performers, and others interested in Salem’s witchcraft history will meet at the Witch Trials Memorial off of Liberty and Charter streets Saturday, June 10, to remember Bridget ...

Thursday marked the 329th anniversary of the death of Bridget Bishop, the first execution in the Salem Witch Trials.

When four young girls from Salem Village began having mysterious fits in 1692, they accused Bishop of sending her spirit to ...

History Alive Inc. and Petticoat Pages will host a commemoration of the 329th anniversary of the execution of Bridget Bishop.

Nearly 550 original papers from the Salem witchcraft trials, part of the Peabody Essex Museum's collection, have been redigitized and are available online as higher-quality images in searchable form.

Within a few minutes she was dead. Bishop was the first of 19 people to be hanged in this spot, more than 300 years ago, during the months of paranoia and pain that were the Salem witch trials.

Three hundred years after the Salem Witch Trials, a cast of Puritans took to the streets of Salem.As tourists looked on, they dragged accused witch Bridget Bishop to Old Town Hall for her trial ...

Descendants of Salem Witch Trials seek to clear the names of their doomed ancestors Amid the celebration and fun of Halloween comes a darker reminder of a grim period in American history.

Researchers and historians turn to this cache hoping to learn more about what led to the persecution of innocent victims including Bridget Bishop, Sarah Good and Rebecca Nurse.

Families of doomed people who became victims of the Salem Witch trials are hoping to clear their name nearly four centuries later. The Massachusetts Witch-Hunt Justice Project is made up of ...