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

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

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

Check out our list of movies (and a TV show) that take place in and around Salem for the perfect Halloween vibes.

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The sudden emergence of witch trials in early modern Europe may have been fueled by one of humanity's most significant ...

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

Efforts have ramped up to save one of the most important sites linked to the Salem Witch Trials that's still standing today. A Change.org petition to save Ingersoll's Tavern at 199 Hobart St. in ...

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The Connecticut Witch Trials occurred from 1647 to 1663, more than four decades before the trials in Salem, Massachusetts. “The witch trials in Connecticut were extremely deadly. The first seven ...