The last proceedings of the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts ended in 1693. But 331 years later, religious witch hunts remain a common — if not well-publicized — occurrence in countries ...

US President Donald Trump lashed out on Twitter yesterday, claiming that his administration was being subjected to the "greatest witch hunt in American political history". Trump was deriding what ...

The ceremony was held in Salem, Massachusetts ... “The best part is that Trump always says it’s a witch hunt against him,” ...

The main result of the project, the 1000-page volume Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt was published in January 2009 (Cambridge University Press). The texts provide valuable information on Colonial ...

One of the reasons that the Salem witch craze has such a hold on our imagination is the detailed testimony available to us. There are several contemporary sources, including court records ...

The spirit of the Salem witch-hunt haunts Washington again. Sarah McClendon's labeling of William A. Wieland and J. Clayton Miller, two State Department aides, as security risks, has aroused a ...

For all the notoriety which the judgment of history has fastened upon the Salem witch-hunts, the true story of the trials is a little-known one. It is an intensely dramatic story, numbering among ...

A new history of the seventeenth-century Basque witch-hunt usefully blows away some old myths, but fails to explain ...

On this day in 1690, "Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick" attracted colonial officials' ire by repeating a scandalous rumor and condemning a British alliance with the Mohawk Meilan ...

who was hanged during the Salem witch trials in 1692. More than 200 people were accused during the trials, and 20 were executed, making it the deadliest witch hunt in North America A law against ...

For example, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is essentially a play based on the Salem witch hunts in 17th-century America. However, when we look at the background of why it was written ...