If you thought that accusations of witchcraft were a quaint moral panic surely left behind in the Salem witch trial era ... Marion Gibson’s recent book, “Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen ...

In 1692, the colonial town of Salem, Massachusetts, became caught up in a fervor over alleged witchcraft. In her new book “The Witches,” Stacy Schiff explores what led a group of Puritans to ...

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 last proceedings of the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts ended in 1693. But 331 years later, religious witch hunts remain a common — if not well-publicized — occurrence in countries ...

She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review. Her book The Witches: Salem, 1692 comes out in October 2015. How America’s “first politician” galvanized a colony—and ...