Daniel Gagnon, a historian and author of A Salem Witch: The Trial, Execution, and Exoneration of Rebecca Nurse (Westholme), explains the context ... But his involvement in the Salem witch trials - and ...

It is July 19, 1692, Salem Village of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Witch trials, at fever pitch ... old mother of eight who will live on in the infamy of a benighted era: Rebecca Nurse. A convicted witch ...

In a stunning collapse, the Bucks let a 7-point lead slip away in the final 30 seconds of Game 5, ending their playoff run in ...

The witch trials that swept Europe from the late 15th through the 17th centuries, culminating notably in America’s Salem Witch Trials of 1692, were driven substantially by specific biblical ...

Thousands of pounds of paper recycled on Pittsfield’s Community Shred Day “Witch Panic! Massachusetts Before Salem” opens May 17 at the Lyman and Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History ...

Halloween may be months away, but it’s never too early (or too late) to celebrate — especially in Salem, which is known for its dark history of witch trials, haunted places and paranormal ...

“To be honest, the one thought that really went through my mind sitting in the court room was witch trials … trying to make her advocacy fit into some kind of vilification,” Ms Bastiaan said.

Machielsen noted the contrast with the Salem Witch Trials, where survivors had their names cleared in the immediate aftermath and in 1711 received financial compensation from the Province of ...

Hungary’s witch trials occupy a unique place among the medieval and early modern European witch hunts. Unlike in Western Europe, where persecution was frequent and brutal, Hungary followed a different ...

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 ...

With copious and detailed examples, Bernard Rosenthal argues that the constructed history of the Salem witch trials mirrors the perniciousness of the trials themselves. A considerable and often ...