Statistics is just one way to tell the tale of the infamous Salem witch trials. In just 16 months between ... and women of color—people who were easy to accuse as witches. ( ...

The Connecticut Witch Trials occurred from 1647 to 1663, more than four decades before the trials in Salem, Massachusetts ... the people easy to scapegoat,” Hermes added.

A new exhibition on the Salem witch trials explores how the meaning of the ... but it’s really easy to get carried along and turn on one another.” The exhibition evokes this history largely ...

Not long after the conclusion of the Salem witch trials, residents of colonial Massachusetts ... which in turn may have made her an easy target for the allegations that swept through Puritan ...

Salem, Massachusetts is infamous for a dark period in colonial history: the witch trials of the 1690s. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft, and, by the end of it ...

One of the two churches that comprise Father Murray’s parish, Immaculate Conception Church, sits less than a two-minute walk from the Salem Witch Trials Memorial, a small park that houses locust ...

According to local historical researcher Marilynne K. Roach’s 2002 book, “The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege,” some of the afflicted girls claimed that ...