In January of 2025, Dr. Margaret Carpenter, an OB/GYN practicing in New York, was indicted by a West Baton Rouge grand jury for mailing an abortion-inducing prescription to an expectant teenager ...

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 ...

The bill acknowledges that more than 300 years after the witch trials in the U.S., historians, and society agree the accused and convicted individuals were innocent. Community panic, overwhelming ...

Staff and volunteers with the history center are broadcasting their pre-recorded reenactment of the Salem Witch Trials for their October Family Day. “The hysteria started to grow in the winter months ...

In 1692, the colonial town of Salem, Massachusetts, became caught up in a fervor over alleged witchcraft. In her new book “The Witches,” Stacy Schiff explores what led a group of Puritans to ...