Cotton Mather believed women. When they made accusations against people in power, he took them seriously. When Thomas Putnam rode across the Salem Village hillside to town center 330 years ago to ...

May 21—Shepherd University students were able to step back in time to the 1600s through the diary of prominent New England minister and writer Cotton Mather. Benjamin Bankhurst, associate professor of ...

Rick Kennedy rewrites the reputation of a reviled Puritan leader. If we remember the Puritan pastor Cotton Mather at all these days, we’re likely to think of him as a meddling, moralistic hypocrite.

And what of the scholars who bought into the witchcraft scenario every bit as much as the unschooled villagers? Clergymen such as Cotton Mather, the formidable Puritan minister who was one of the ...

"When the prisoner was first examined for committment, the afflicted were struck down in a fit. - Cotton Mather. " Besides all this, a jury of women was empanelled to search her, who found a ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The son of influential Puritan minister Increase Mather, Cotton Mather belonged to the Puritan dynasty that shaped the ...