Witches are having a moment. Beyond the hit musical Wicked, there TikTok Hashtags and millions of posts celebrating witches ...

Presented as part of Herstory Arts Festival, Rebecca McNamee’s (Playwright & Director) ABIGAIL WILLIAMS is a response to ...

In more recent memory, theocratic regimes from Iran to Afghanistan have shown the cost of governing through religious ...

Indeed, from her appearance and occupation it was fortunate for herself that she lived more than a century after the tragedies enacted by our Puritan ... to the Salem Witch Trials in New England ...

The Puritan “Great Migration” to New England ... This perception only increased after the deadly witch trials in Salem in 1692. One merchant worried that “New-England will be called, new ...

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 ...

a professor of American history at Cornell University and author of "In the Devil's Snare," a new book about the Salem witch trials. "The Puritans were typical people of their time in that they ...