Experience the thrill of history through fiction. These 12 historical novels weave suspenseful tales of power, survival, and ...

Maryland is the most recent state to introduce legislation to exonerate those convicted of witchcraft centuries ago. But why ...

In honor of Women’s History Month, The Seattle Public Library shares four witchy titles in several genres that take place in ...

A new short film aims to unearth the untold stories of midwives and healers who were targeted as witches in the 16th Century.

A slice of colonial history in Beverly, Massachusetts, directly associated with the notorious Salem witch trials, has been put on the market. The home located at 252 Essex Street is now listed for ...

Sometime during the 1970s the witch was transformed from a black-hatted crone to a wise medicine women. The spell was cast by radical feminist historians, determined to find their own heroic ...

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Best-selling British author Dame Hilary Mantel has been accused of 'falsifying' history in some of her most famous novels by a professor at the University of Cambridge. Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy ...

The rumors about witches lasted throughout the 20th century and were combined with traditions from the colonial world. The good society looked with bad eyes at this wave of alternative beliefs, and ...

The film, which screens at UC Santa Barbara’s MultiCultural Center (MCC) on Thursday, Feb. 27, sheds light on the often-overlooked lives of Black Africans in 15th- and 16th-century Europe, challenging ...

Diana Gabaldon, the author of Outlander, based Geillis Duncan on a real 16th-century maidservant ... leading to further trials and executions in what would become the North Berwick witch trials ...