The ceremony was held in Salem, Massachusetts ... “The best part is that Trump always says it’s a witch hunt against him,” ...

US President Donald Trump lashed out on Twitter yesterday, claiming that his administration was being subjected to the "greatest witch hunt in American political history". Trump was deriding what ...

The spirit of the Salem witch-hunt haunts Washington again. Sarah McClendon's labeling of William A. Wieland and J. Clayton Miller, two State Department aides, as security risks, has aroused a ...

The last proceedings of the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts ended in 1693. But 331 years later, religious witch hunts remain a common — if not well-publicized — occurrence in countries ...

The city of Salem, Massachusetts, which famously draws massive crowds during the Halloween season for its history with the ...

For all the notoriety which the judgment of history has fastened upon the Salem witch-hunts, the true story of the trials is a little-known one. It is an intensely dramatic story, numbering among ...

“People in the 17th century were a lot less sensitive” when describing persons with mental disabilities, observed historian Richard Hite, author of "In the Shadow of Salem," a book about the witch ...

While walking you'll learn about the Salem Witch Trials, maritime history and ... Guides will also teach participants how to hunt for ghosts and take images of spirits with their cameras.

A new history of the seventeenth-century Basque witch-hunt usefully blows away some old myths, but fails to explain ...

Formerly the residence of infamous Judge Jonathan Corwin, the Witch House is the only structure in Salem still standing that has direct ties to the 1692 witch trials. Because of this, it is a ...

On this day in 1690, "Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick" attracted colonial officials' ire by repeating a scandalous rumor and condemning a British alliance with the Mohawk Meilan ...