Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of a court scene during the late-17th century witch trials in Salem, Mass. Christine_Kohler/iStock via Getty ...

I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what happened in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. Nineteen people accused of witchcraft ...

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What happens when a teacher inspires her students to take on history? In the case of Carrie LaPierre's eighth grade class at North Andover Middle School, it inspired a sojourn into the Salem Witch ...

SALEM, MA -- A team of researchers using historical documents and 21st-century archaeological techniques has confirmed the site where 19 innocent people were hanged during the Salem witch trials more ...

Curator of History Liz Kapp at the “Witch Panic! Massachusetts Before Salem” exhibit within the Lyman and Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History, Thursday, July 31, 2025, in Springfield. Staff ...

Three hundred and thirty-three (half of another number of note) years ago, there was trouble in Salem, Massachusetts. Twenty-five people were killed, and about another hundred and fifty were ...

It’s one of the oldest documented parts of our state’s history, and also one of the darkest. The Connecticut Witch Trials occurred from 1647 to 1663, more than four decades before the trials in Salem, ...

If you want a piece of history from the Salem Witch Trials, one is up for auction. Just be prepared to break out your credit ...

I visited Salem, Massachusetts, recently with some of my kids. It seemed like an appropriate Halloween kind of trip, despite a lot of the obvious tourist trappings of the town of Salem itself. Like ...

I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what happened in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. Nineteen people accused of witchcraft ...