Magic is afoot at the New-York Historical Society, where a new exhibition revisits a dark chapter in U.S. history: the Salem Witch Trials.Between early 1692 and mid-1693, more than 200 people were ...

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 ...

David Teniers II’s “Incantation Scene” (1650-1690) anchors a display in “The Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming,” along with two 17th-century books about witchcraft from the ...

In art history, the Salem witch trials often take the form of the most cinematic moments: arrest, prosecution, and execution. These images define our popular understanding of this historic event ...

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

Margaret McGilvray, a practicing witch and founder of The Witchery, an art and performance space in Salem, reflects, “When I am at the Witch Trials Memorial, I am not analyzing from a historical ...

Autumn is the perfect time to delve into the fun, fantasy and fright associated with Halloween, with perhaps no place better for it than Salem — famous for the Salem Witch Trials — making it a ...