For a book about the 1600s, Stacy Schiff's "The Witches," an exhaustive history of the Salem witch trials, calls to mind a surprising amount of contemporary popular culture. Sometimes Schiff brings it ...

The Witches: Salem, 1692, by Stacy Schiff, is a historical work of nonfiction that reads like a twisting, turning mystery. Schiff pulls back the curtain on this bizarre episode in American history to ...

Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” is required reading in nearly every high school classroom, placing the village of Salem, Massachusetts, well within the sphere of pop-culture awareness. In Pulitzer ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Stacy Schiff’s “The Witches: Salem, 1692” is the kind of book you forget isn’t fiction. Though ...

For more than three centuries, Salem, Mass., has been linked to the infamous witch trials. In 1692, at least 20 men and women died after being convicted of witchcraft; it was then considered a crime ...

As though I hadn't yet heard of the internet, I have in my files an actual yellowing newspaper clipping from a 2012 New York Times, headlined "Hysteria and the Teenage Girl". The article mentions the ...

The Massachusetts city unveiled a memorial for people put to death in 1692. — -- A memorial to people who were executed on charges of witchcraft 325 years ago was unveiled on Wednesday in Salem, ...

When The Crucible debuted on Broadway in 1953, Arthur Miller famously declared, “Salem is one of the few dramas in history with a beginning, a middle, and an end.” It’s a catchy sound bite—but what is ...

At first glance, the Salem witch trials of 1692 seem like a putrid, horrifying excrescence straight out of medieval Europe. Not only were many innocents hanged, but one victim, Giles Corey, was ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! For the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In 1692, writes Stacy Schiff in her penetrating new book on the Salem witch trials, “New Englanders lived very much in the dark.” Their days were filled with ...