His Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692 is the first book in Oxford University Press’s New Narratives in American History series, which its editors say will forgo the “detached, ...

As a quest by the townspeople of Salem, Mass. to rid their community of members they believed to be unfit and unholy additions, the 1692-93 Salem witch trials involved a series of hearings and ...

All that is clearly true, but I have personal reasons for perceiving the Salem witch hunt (as some historians also do) ... The witch hysteria of 1692 took place in a small, ...

That’s the topic of a book, "In the Shadow of Salem: The Andover Witch Hunt of 1692," by author Richard Hite, who was at the North Andover Historical Society on Friday night for a discussion on ...

Satan & Salem: The Witch-Hunt Crisis of 1692 Benjamin C. Ray. Univ. of Virginia, $29.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8139-3707-6 ...

Salem 1692 – The Origins of Witch Hunt Madness. Posted: February 21, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025. In February 1692, strange illness struck two young girls in Salem, igniting the infamous ...

BACK in 1692, a group of teenage girls claimed to be possessed and began accusing neighbours of practising witchcraft. They sparked a witch hunt in the small community and, as hysteria rose, a cour… ...

SALEM, Mass. — The Massachusetts community where 20 people suspected of witchcraft were put to death in 1692 unveiled a memorial to 19 of those victims on Wednesday, promising never to forget ...

STAMFORD -- We've all heard of the Salem witch trials, thanks in large part to Arthur Miller's play, "The Crucible." But Salem's saga wasn't the only witch hunt that blew through New England in 1692.

SALEM, Mass. — Five women hanged during the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts are being remembered on the 325th anniversary of their deaths. Salem planned a Wednesday ceremony at Proctor’s ...

SALEM, Mass. (AP) — Five women hanged during the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts are being remembered on the 325th anniversary of their deaths. Salem planned a Wednesday ceremony at Proctor ...