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 ...

The infamous witch trials may have put this Boston suburb on the map, but they’ve also overshadowed much of its magic. Here’s ...

During the Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts, which occurred in 1692, a total of 19 people were accused of witchcraft. They were executed by hanging, and another person was pressed to ...

Witches are a big deal in Salem's modern culture. The city's association with witchcraft has been capitalized on from films like 1993's "Hocus Pocus" to the annual Halloween festivities that draw in ...

The bill acknowledges that more than 300 years after the witch trials in the U.S., historians, and society agree the accused and convicted individuals were innocent.

Almanac: The Salem witch trials 01:52. In 1648, Margaret Jones, a midwife, became the first person in Massachusetts - the second in New England - to be executed for witchcraft, decades before the ...

The group wants all victims of the 17th century witch trials exonerated to not ... Massachusetts exonerated 22-year-old Elizabeth Johnson Jr. — 329 years after she had been convicted in ...

The Connecticut Witch Trials occurred from 1647 to 1663, more than four decades before the trials in Salem, ... Woman charged in crash on I-91 in Enfield that killed 11-month-old son ...

As “Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials” argues, across seven centuries, women have been accused of witchcraft—but what that means often differs wildly, revealing the anxieties of each ...

DANVERS — Ingersoll’s Tavern on Hobart Street is one of the most significant sites of the Salem Witch Trials still standing today. But the roughly 350 year-old building is on ...