For the vast majority of Americans, their knowledge of the Salem Witch Trials is limited to that of popular culture, specifically to Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible" or of the movie version of the ...

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 ...

"The Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming" is on view at the New-York Historical Society. Thomas Satterwhite Noble, Witch Hill (The Salem Martyr), 1869. Collection of the New-York Historical ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...