Discover the fascinating and tragic story of Tituba, the enslaved woman at the center of the Salem Witch Trials hysteria.

The Ann Rogers Clark Chapter if the DAR had a very interesting meeting last weekend with the program led by Diane Stepro from the Indiana Room at the Jeffersonville Public ...

When a piece of furniture has survived for nearly 350 years, you know it has some history, but one such cabinet may have the most macabre historical story of them all. The history of a small, ...

Aerial view of Vardo, Norway, the fishing town at the center of the 17th-century Finnmark witch trials Timo Noko via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 On Christmas Eve in 1617, sailors in Finnmark, ...

Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, represents a systemic, existential threat to the ...

This intriguing study from historian Nesvig (Promiscuous Power) catalogs the ways in which Native and European supernatural beliefs met and intermingled in post-conquest Mexico. Drawing on Inquisition ...

Four new books offer readers a rich volume of cartoons with “Far Side”-level wit, but also go deep on a diverse array of real-life figures, from Afrobeat megastar Fela to the infamous Mitford sisters ...

NORTH ANDOVER — As tens of thousands of revelers descend on Salem, every Halloween because of the witch trials of 1692 and 1693, towns in the Merrimack Valley have stories seldom heard, including ...

While the women accused in the infamous Salem witch trials in colonial America have long since been pardoned, the convictions of hundreds of British women executed under similar laws officially still ...

Grace White Sherwood, the “Witch of Pungo,” most certainly had a way with the neighbors. According to local legend and court records, she excelled at aggravating them. At the corner of Witchduck Road ...