by Kristin Stringer | Apr 23, 2026
In the year 1692, the town of Salem, Massachusetts was taken over by fear and religious extremism, and panic, leading to what we know today as the Salem Witch Trials. It was believed during this time that the devil was inside of people, taking over them and making...
by Nicole Pena Gonzalez | Apr 30, 2025
The image “Witchcraft at Salem Village,” created in 1876 by William A. Crafts, sheds light on a tragic and important time in early American history — the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. During the late 1600s, people living in the English colonies of New...
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...