The stick also is pictured in PEM’s 1855 Tompkins Harrison Matteson painting of Jacobs’s trial. “The Salem Witch Trials 1692” culminates in a memorial wall and a list of restorative ...

The 300-year-old book of witch trials held in Bury St Edmunds will go on display later this month A 300-year-old rare book that details events said to have inspired the infamous Salem Witch Trials ...

One is an immersive narration of the 1692 Salem witch trials featuring costumed life-size mannequins, lighting and prerecorded narration, and the second, titled "Witches: Evolving Perceptions ...

The Crucible’ is so much more than a play about the Salem Witch Trials,” says Tom Heagy, director of this intense theatrical ...

On this day in 1690, "Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick" attracted colonial officials' ire by repeating a scandalous rumor and condemning a British alliance with the Mohawk Meilan ...

In her book A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials, Laurie Winn Carlson draws on these events at length in the first few chapters; they make fascinating reading.

the Witch House is the only structure in Salem still standing that has direct ties to the 1692 witch trials. Because of this, it is a crucial stop on any Salem itinerary (and included on many of ...

The Crucible” is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692-1693. American playwright Arthur Miller penned the play as an allegory for ...