In 1692, the colonial town of Salem, Massachusetts, became caught up in a fervor over alleged witchcraft. In her new book “The Witches,” Stacy Schiff explores what led a group of Puritans to ...

In colonial New England, the Puritans’ religious worldview strongly influenced their legal and social structures, making biblical law central to governance and societal behavior. The Salem Witch ...

The world is laughing at us, NATO has openly said that we are not trustworthy, the government is being dismantled, safe GOP seats are now in jeopardy, and the Salem Puritans believe that that's great.

Their actions can doubtless be easily explained by modern psychiatry. But to the Puritans of Salem, indeed to any seventeenth century man, these were puzzling and frightening phenomena.