The infamous witch trials may have put this Boston suburb on the map, but they’ve also overshadowed much of its magic. Here’s ...

When four young girls from Salem Village began having mysterious fits in 1692, they accused Bishop of sending her spirit to ...

The accused never denied witchcraft existed – they denied being part of it. Mary Easty’s calm, reasoned plea exposed cracks ...

Rebecca Nurse was a well-known woman hung in the 1692 Salem Witch Trials By Courtney Sisk • Published October 30, 2024 • Updated on November 3, 2024 at 10:21 am ...

The result was “Becky Nurse of Salem,” a 2022 play, now in its first Chicago staging by Shattered Globe Theatre, that revolves around the titular character, a real-life descendant of Rebecca ...

Halloween Descendants of Salem Witch Trials seek to clear the names of their doomed ancestors Amid the celebration and fun of Halloween comes a darker reminder of a grim period in American history.

In 2022, lawmakers exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr., clearing her name 329 years after she was convicted of witchcraft in 1693 and sentenced to death at the height of the Salem witch trials.

Thompson, who owns a nonprofit newspaper, The Harpswell Anchor, decided to write a historical novel of the events that led to the Salem witch trials. It was released in May.

Becky Nurse (Angela Brazil) is as local as local can get in Salem. Not only can she trace her ancestry all the way back to Rebecca Nurse, a victim of the Salem witch trials, but she embodies ...

While Mary and Philip English would go on to survive the witch trials by escaping to New York, Richter explained that their story highlights another pervasive injustice that victims of the witch ...