Reckoning With—and Reclaiming—the Salem Witch Trials A new exhibition unites 17th-century artifacts with contemporary artists’ responses to the mass hysteria event ...

Art World A New Exhibition Gets at the Truth Behind the Salem Witch Trials. In Some Ways, It’s Scarier Than the Lore. The Peabody Essex Museum's show reveals chilling primary documents and draws ...

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 “Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming” exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum draws parallels between the country’s most infamous example of mass hysteria and current culture.

The exhibition sets Salem’s trials against this historical backdrop, displaying a 1494 copy of the German witch-hunting manual Malleus Maleficarum alongside British diagnostic texts. Petition of ...

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 ...

The new exhibition, “The Salem Witch Trials 1692,” which documents the hysteria that led to the deaths of 25 people accused, is PEM’s first in-depth look in nearly 30 years at the real-life ...

The Salem witch trials are constantly referenced through Quan Barry’s “We Ride Upon Sticks,” the novel being read and explored by the Boston.com Book Club this month. The novel follows the ...