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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As part of her research into the Salem witch trials for her new book “The Witches,” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff, left, spent time digging through the archived court records of Essex ...