SALEM, MA -- A team of researchers using historical documents and 21st-century archaeological techniques has confirmed the site where 19 innocent people were hanged during the Salem witch trials more ...

When most people think about witch trials in early America, their minds go straight to Salem. The images are familiar. Dark ...

17 th century New England saw its fair share of witch hysteria, with neighbors accusing neighbors of heresy. Some of the most infamous trials played out in Salem, Massachusetts, but as a new ...

BRATTLEBORO — The next meeting of the Windham County Genealogy Interest Group will focus on “Tracing Ancestors in the Salem Witch Trials ” and “Using Cemetery Directories to Find Ancestor Burials.” ...

The era of social media has seen many defeats for liberalism in the political sphere. But more importantly, and more corrosively, it has seen a retreat for liberalism in the social sphere, as well.

SPRINGFIELD — Years before people accused of being witches were tortured, tried and hanged in Salem, witch hysteria swept through Springfield when a prominent couple began acting strangely in the eyes ...

Bridget Bishop was the first woman executed during the infamous Salem witch trials — and her only real crime may have been being different. In a time when paranoia ruled and suspicion meant death, she ...

The witch trials in the 15th and 16th centuries were born out of the social crisis of feudal society. But did they summon ...