TALES of witch trials usually evoke thoughts of Salem in Massachusetts, England’s Pendle Hill or other infamous places in ...

President Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair just gets weirder and weirder. The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles stopped by the Great American State Fair Monday to play the “Yes or No Game,” the ...

The Salem witch trials took place in a period of New England history when women were accused of being witches. These accusations were deadly in some cases. It wasn't until 2022 that the last woman ...

T. H. Matteson, "Examination of a Witch" (1853), oil on canvas, 38 1/2 x 53 9/10 inches (97.8 x 137 cm) (image via Wikimedia Commons) In art history, the Salem witch trials often take the form of the ...

I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what happened in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. Nineteen people accused of witchcraft ...

In the winter of 1692, a nine-year-old girl and her eleven-year-old cousin began having violent fits inside a parsonage in ...

Haylee Gilmore is a writer, artist, and avid book reader based in Pittsburgh, PA. She is a Point Park University graduate in the English Creative Writing Program. Her dream goal is to become a fiction ...

The Salem witch trials were the largest witchcraft outbreak in American history, resulting from a perfect storm of catastrophes. Taking place in 1692 and 1693, the Salem witch trials were held in ...

In spring 1692, a handful of women in the New England town of Salem Village had been arrested on “suspicion of acts of witchcraft” when authorities issued a warrant for Dorothy Good, age 4. Dorothy’s ...

A portion of the new exhibit "The Salem Witch Trials: Restoring Justice" on display now at the Peabody Essex Museum (Amanda Beland/WBUR) A new exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum examines how to bring ...

It’s no secret that President Donald Trump has been difficult for other world leaders to deal with, but a new report from the ...