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Witch hunting has claimed many lives in history and unfortunately persists today in some areas. One of the well-known ...

Stacy Schiff an the award-winning author of several books including Véra: (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), which won a Pulitzer Prize. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review.

Proctor's Ledge in a vintage photograph. There are almost 1,000 surviving official documents and several contemporary histories from the Salem witch trials of 1692 and 1693. But little of this ...

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Lawrence Goldsmith discovers that there's more to Boston than the American Revolution as he explores the cities sights and ...

The following is a listing of all home transfers in York County reported from Jan. 6 to Jan. 12. There were 136 transactions ...

Sabrina Kennedy was three years old when she saw her first spirit. Sitting in the bath, she asked her mother, Linda: ‘Who is that man behind you?’ Linda brushed the question off, but later ...

WITH over half a century in the journalistic game I have accumulated a bizarre collection of hundreds of business card ...

Abigail Williams may have been only 12 years old during the Salem Witch Trials, but she played a pivotal role in the infamous witch hunt. Born in the late 17th century, Williams was raised by the ...

When, in 1982, Cibella Borges protested against her suspension from the police force for posing nude for a magazine, she insisted that her action had constituted no crime. 'She said she feared "the ...