New research shows that the printing press, invented by Johannes Gutenberg, helped spread conspiracies that fueled the Salem ...

That text was spread throughout the Western world thanks to the newly invented printing press.

Statistics is just one way to tell the tale of the infamous Salem witch trials. In just 16 months between February 1692 and May 1693, up to 200 people—mostly women—were accused of practicing ...

I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what ...

The Connecticut Witch Trials occurred from 1647 to 1663, more than four decades before the trials in Salem, Massachusetts. ...

The first Chicago production by Shattered Globe Theatre stars Linda Reiter as the descendent of a woman executed during the ...

Each week we pause to ponder the truths available to us from the pages of history. We browse through the annals of the ...

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 ...

Efforts have ramped up to save one of the most important sites linked to the Salem Witch Trials that’s still standing today.

On May 16, 1692, a 45-year-old Amesbury, Massachusetts ... Roach’s 2002 book, “The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege,” some of the afflicted girls ...