Elizabeth Johnson Jr., a woman convicted of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s, was finally exonerated last week after years of petitioning by Massachusetts teacher Carrie ...

By the 1690s, however, Baker said many people felt ... “As it turns out, the Salem witch trials took place in what we now recognize as the Little Ice Age, which was a time of colder climate ...

Salem, Massachusetts is infamous for a dark period in colonial history: the witch trials of the 1690s. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft, and, by the end of it ...

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Statistics is just one way to tell the tale of the infamous Salem witch trials. In just 16 months between February 1692 and May 1693, up to 200 people—mostly women—were accused of practicing ...

It wasn't until 1695 that criticism spread about Salem's witch hunts and the unfair persecutions of innocent people. Proper trials were eventually held in the late 1690s to early 1700s.

A new memorial is being proposed to bring attention to the town’s significant role in the infamous Salem Witch Trials and the ...

RASCOE: How did we get from the witch trials ... we have witches in the 1690s, and we have witches in the 1990s, right? But the witches of Salem and the witches of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer ...

According to local historical researcher Marilynne K. Roach’s 2002 book, “The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege,” some of the afflicted girls claimed that ...

Elizabeth Johnson Jr., a woman convicted of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s, was finally exonerated last week after years of petitioning by Massachusetts teacher Carrie ...