A teacher focusing on the New England witchcraft trials reveals how dogs were accused of working with the devil in the 17th ...

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

The 15 th through 17 th centuries saw a wave of “witch hunts” break out across the Western world: the Salem Witch Trials in ...

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 ...

Check out our list of movies (and a TV show) that take place in and around Salem for the perfect Halloween vibes.

The Connecticut Witch Trials occurred from 1647 to 1663, more than four decades before the trials in Salem, Massachusetts. “The witch trials in Connecticut were extremely deadly. The first seven ...

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

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

(The Conversation) — Dogs appeared several times during testimonies typically because an accused witch was believed to have had a dog who would do her bidding, or because the devil appeared in ...

According to local historical researcher Marilynne K. Roach's 2002 book, "The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege," some of the afflicted girls claimed that a man ...