In 1692, the most infamous witch hunt in history took place in Salem, Massachusetts.

According to a 2002 book called The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege by Marilynne K. Roach, there was a case involving a man named John Bradstreet. Some girls ...

The pivotal accuser at the trials, Tituba, would go down in history ... As often as we have revisited Salem—on the page, on the stage and on the screen—we have failed to unpack a crucial ...

Ballantine Books; Austin Sandhaus Deborah Harkness ... and her discovering a family connection to the Salem witch trials that she didn’t even realize when she began writing about the occult.

A new exhibition on the Salem witch trials explores how the meaning of the ... Alongside many of the portraits in Denny’s series, both in the book and in the exhibition, the subjects provide ...

A few years after the trials, a book appeared in Boston which denounced Cotton Mather, Increase's son, for his part in the Salem witch-hunts. But although Cotton's son, for his part in the Salem ...

One is an immersive narration of the 1692 Salem witch trials featuring costumed life-size mannequins, lighting and prerecorded narration, and the second, titled "Witches: Evolving Perceptions ...

the Witch House is the only structure in Salem still standing that has direct ties to the 1692 witch trials. Because of this, it is a crucial stop on any Salem itinerary (and included on many of ...

In 1692, the colonial town of Salem, Massachusetts, became caught up in a fervor over alleged witchcraft. In her new book “The Witches,” Stacy Schiff explores what led a group of Puritans to ...