Salem Village, Massachusetts, became the epicenter of a notorious series of witch trials fueled by fear, superstition, and social tensions. Over the course of a year, more than 200 individuals were ...

Witch trials were not unique to Salem. Europe had undergone a witch-hunting craze from the 15th to the 18th centuries, prosecuting an estimated 100,000 people—mostly women—for accusations of ...

Thomas Satterwhite Noble, Witch Hill (The Salem Martyr), 1869.Collection of the New-York Historical Society, gift of the children of Thomas S. Noble and Mary C. Noble, in their memory, 1939.

Fear + trigger = scapegoat" is displayed at the Salem Witch Museum, a popular tourist attraction in Massachusetts where I ...

Elizabeth Johnson Jr., a woman convicted of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s, was finally exonerated after years of petitioning by Massachusetts teacher Carrie LaPierre and ...

After Mr. McQueen learned that he was her descendant, he created the 2007 collection “In Memory of Elizabeth How, Salem 1692,” which exalted the symbols of witchcraft.

In the case of Carrie LaPierre's eighth grade class at North Andover Middle School, it inspired a sojourn into the Salem Witch Trials of the 17th Century, where innocent women were put to death ...

Sarina E. Miller is a student in North Andover, Mass. It took more than 300 years, but the story of a forgotten woman convicted in the Salem witch trials has finally been told. And it took my ...