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

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

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In her Newberry Library course, Kay Daly examines the depiction of witches onstage, from the 17th century to the present.

Agatha All Along has put Agatha Harkness in the spotlight alongside a coven of unlikely allies as they journey down the ...

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

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