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 ...

Long before the hysteria took hold, something was already brewing in Salem. In part one of this deep dive, we explore the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...