Under duress, Tituba confessed to witchcraft ... with a crowd accusing two young girls. Like many during the Salem witch trials, the girls’ youth reflects the vulnerability of those targeted.

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

This inspired more people to come forward and accuse others of being witches, igniting what we now call the Salem Witch Trials. Tituba “was indicted as ‘a detestable witch’ and languished in ...

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

Kirstie Alley leads an all-star cast in a drama recalling the 1692 Puritan witch-hunt that tarnished ... Sir William Phips: Alan Bates. Tituba: Gloria Reuben. Thomas Putnam: Jay O.

To those impressionable children from austere Puritan households, Tituba ... the trials, a book appeared in Boston which denounced Cotton Mather, Increase's son, for his part in the Salem witch ...

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

her trial technically wasn't part of the Salem witch trials. Her trial has a few similarities to the real-life Salem witch trials, but the biggest difference is that it has a huge impact.

On this day in 1690, "Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick" attracted colonial officials' ire by repeating a scandalous rumor and condemning a British alliance with the Mohawk Meilan ...

If you're heading to Salem, you should set aside some time for a visit to the Salem Witch Trials Memorial. Built to honor the victims who died during the 1692 witchcraft hysteria, the memorial ...