The Connecticut Haunted History Trail features more than 130 haunted locations across the state. The post Our witch trials were first, notes Connecticut in ‘Haunted History Trail’ announcement ...

Barring fictional characters, a slave named Tituba is America's most famous "witch." She was there at Ground Zero in the case of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. But because she was a slave, her ...

Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) will bring history, scholarship, storytelling and horror together this fall with its 2026 Salem Witch Trials event series, featuring a student research e ...

The Salem Witch Trials are one of the most infamous chapters in U.S. history. Throughout the centuries, books, movies, and plays have all tried to unearth the reasons behind the strange hysteria that ...

Ann M. Ryan is a professor of American literature at Le Moyne College and author of “The Ghosts of Mark Twain: A Study of Manhood, Race, and the Gothic Imagination.” During the Salem Witch trials of ...

Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...

The witch hunts of the Early Modern period (1500–1789) are among the darkest periods of women’s history. Tens of thousands were accused of, and executed for, practising magic and worshipping the Devil ...