Scores of people were imprisoned and executed during the infamous Salem witch trials of the 1600s. Investigators examine the era's rampant anti-witch sentiment from a scientific viewpoint, testing ...

Salem, Massachusetts has a checkered, dark yet fascinating history. The site of one of the deadliest cases of moral panic, it is infamous for the rash of Puritan witch hunts in the 17th century, ...

A Salem witch killed in the trials, she uses the last of her living power to seek revenge on her killer. But when she and her father come back to life, she ends up meeting her killer’s descendant — ...

Today’s Salem is a strange place, at once alluring and off-putting. This former haunt of terrified, grudge-holding (and doomed) Puritans bursts with witch museums, statues, tours, workshops, gift ...

University of Massachusetts provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what ...