If amateur investigation into my lineage is to be believed, Rebecca Nurse is my ninth great-grandmother, Lynne Weiler writes.

The pivotal accuser at the trials ... was the first in Salem to mention a flight. Along with those women, Tituba came before the authorities in Salem Village on March 1, 1692, to answer to ...

President Abraham Lin­coln signs a bill ending slavery in Washington, D.C. Approximately nine months later he would issue the ...

“This is the gift of the humanities,” Edward Meadors, professor of Biblical studies, said. “Somehow we can get through to people by reading a book or watching a movie or engaging in theater to put ...

Kimberly Belflower’s smart, stimulating play follows a group of modern high-schoolers reading the Arthur Miller drama and ...

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 ...

none of the individuals convicted in 1692 were burned at the stake, although they were subjected to the theatricality of the gallows. With copious and detailed examples, Bernard Rosenthal argues that ...

US Ghost Adventures is hosting a "Halfway 2 Halloween Spooktacular" in Salem this spring. Several themed tours are offered, ...

“To be honest, the one thought that really went through my mind sitting in the court room was witch trials … trying to make her advocacy fit into some kind of vilification,” Ms Bastiaan said.