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.

Dogs appeared several times during testimonies typically because an accused witch was believed to have had a dog who would do ...

It’s one of the oldest documented parts of our state’s history, and also one of the darkest. The Connecticut Witch Trials ...

University of Massachusetts provides funding as a ... Roach’s 2002 book, “The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege,” some of the afflicted girls claimed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...