Giles Corey, a farmer accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials, pleaded “not guilty.” He didn’t believe he’d achieve a fair trial and refused to speak. He was subsequently ...

Salem, Massachusetts is best known for the Witch Trials of 1692. That history turned the small town into a Halloween destination, with more than 1 million people flocking there in the month of October ...

Mr. Howlett is related to Mary Bradbury, who was convicted of witchcraft in the Salem trials. “Being a witch meant that you’d signed a covenant with the devil in most European traditions ...

Us-versus-them thinking. High-control habits. An obsession with punishment. Some aspects of the MAGA movement are a lot older ...

In 2017, when the Me Too movement was sweeping the country, playwright Kimberly Belflower was struck with an idea for her next project. Now, eight years later, that project has become one of the most ...

I warned that America faced mass hysteria akin to the Salem witch trials. “Sizable portions of the country appear to walk around in a trance,” I wrote in my book BLM: The Making of a New ...

For over 60 years, the coastal towns of Provincetown and Salem have flown the rainbow flag as two of America’s most ...

We, as a nation, owe a lot to our cinemas for it has always unfailingly filled in the gaps in our education system. No English class had ever taught us that all ...

Salem, Massachusetts Salem, Massachusetts, a town etched in history, is best known for the infamous Salem witch trials of 1692. These trials, which led to the execution of 20 people accused of ...

They studied similar memorials in other countries, including the Salem Witch Trials Memorial in Massachusetts and Steilneset Memorial in northern Norway. But they couldn’t determine where to ...