by Kori Isaac | Jul 3, 2023
Salem Witchcraft Papers The Salem Witch Trials were a series of court hearings and prosecutions of people who were accused of committing witchcraft in Colonial Massachusetts from early 1692 to mid-1693. [1]The hysteria began when two young girls in the household of...
by Ethaniel Vega | May 1, 2022
The historical piece that I chose is called Porto Rico [San Juan]. This piece is part of the N. Phelps Stokes Collection of American Historical Prints in the New York Public Library Digital Collections. This still image was issued in 1671 and touches on some...
![Porto Rico [San Juan]](https://blogs.shu.edu/americanhistory/files/2021/05/1671_Porto_Rico_Arnoldus_Montanus.png)
by Rebekah Santana | May 3, 2021
In the latter part of the 15th century, while sailing his second expedition, Christopher Columbus came across a small island—an island that long before 1492-1494 had been inhabited by the Taino population, and that at the time was called Boriquen. The Taino population...