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.

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.

Salem, Massachusetts, 1692: It's an early entry in American history that is not soon forgotten, between references in modern media (Witches of East End, anyone?), and use of the phrase "witch hunt ...

While the Salem witch trials involved trying more than 150 people across the Atlantic Ocean in Europe, where the Little Ice Age also wreaked havoc, about 100,000 people were tried for witchcraft.

In this time of tension, change and chaos, we, as business leaders, need to use all of our power and authority to put a halt ...

SALEM — The Peabody Essex Museum will be opening its newest ongoing exhibition Saturday – “The Salem Witch Trials: 1692”, which features authentic objects and documents that are hoped to ...

Witch City Walking Tours posted about their time with Tatum, who came to Massachusetts at the request of his 11-year-old daughter Evie, who wanted to learn more about the Salem witch trials.

DANVERS — Efforts have ramped up to save one of the most important sites linked to the Salem Witch Trials that’s still standing today. A Change.org petition to save Ingersoll’s Tavern at 199 ...

Like us on Facebook. BRATTLEBORO — The next meeting of the Windham County Genealogy Interest Group will focus on “Tracing Ancestors in the Salem Witch Trials ” and “Using Cemetery Directories to Find ...

I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what happened in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692.