Sadie Sink knows you’re snapping a picture of her. It doesn’t matter if you’re trying for a covert shot or an inconspicuous selfie where she just happens to be in the background, she can always tell.

Even when the story of the Salem Witch Trials is told with accuracy, the distance of centuries can make it hard to imagine. With this ongoing exhibition, the Peabody Essex Museum tries to close ...

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 ...

Connecticut followed with its own witch exonerations in 2023. Perhaps most notably, Scotland apologized for its witchcraft trials that led to the torture and execution of thousands of women from ...

The pivotal accuser at the trials, Tituba, would go down in history ... More than anyone else, she propelled America’s infamous witch hunt forward, supplying its imagery and determining its ...

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 ...

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 ...