In a play about the Salem witch trials, Looking for Lilith Theatre company hopes to highlight the women prosecuted for alleged witchcraft.

You probably know the story of the Salem Witch Trials from school and maybe had to read a certain play about it. But that is not the whole truth. Join Jenny Anne Bishop's eighth-grade history class as ...

17 th century New England saw its fair share of witch hysteria, with neighbors accusing neighbors of heresy. Some of the most infamous trials played out in Salem, Massachusetts, but as a new ...

Around 50 years before the infamous Salem witch trials, fear of witches first plagued the colonial people of western Massachusetts. In the enterprising settlement of Springfield, founder and fur ...

The Salem Witch Trials were more than a tragic chapter in colonial history; they were a mirror reflecting the darker instincts of fear, faith, and control. What began as strange fits among a few young ...

The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between early 1692 and mid-1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft—the devil’s magic—and 20 were executed. In 1711, ...

On February 28, 1953, scientists James Watson and Francis Crick announced they had worked out the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecule that carries ...