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 ...

“The Crucible” is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692-1693. American playwright Arthur Miller penned the play as an allegory for ...

SALEM, MA -- A team of researchers using historical documents and 21st-century archaeological techniques has confirmed the site where 19 innocent people were hanged during the Salem witch trials more ...

In 1648, Margaret Jones, a midwife, became the first person in Massachusetts — the second in New England — to be executed for witchcraft, decades before the infamous Salem witch trials. Nearly four ...

When a piece of furniture has survived for nearly 350 years, you know it has some history, but one such cabinet may have the ...

A Biblical "concordance" belonging to a judge from the Salem Witch Trials is up for auction tomorrow, Aug. 27 A "concordance" is a sort of reference book The item will be auctioned online on the ...

Seventy-eight percent of the people executed for witchcraft in New England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries were women. Jef Thompson/Shutterstock.com When powerful men cry witch, they’re ...

Today’s Salem is a strange place, at once alluring and off-putting. This former haunt of terrified, grudge-holding (and doomed) Puritans bursts with witch museums, statues, tours, workshops, gift ...

The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between early 1692 and mid-1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft—the devil’s magic—and 20 were executed. In 1711, ...