Salem Witch Trials

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• 10/23/2022
  

  The Salem Trials Challenge Us to Resist Moral Panic and Suspicion

  by Anna K. Danziger Halperin

  The Salem Witch Trials have been a perennial subject of fascination. A new exhibition challenges us to think about the potent mix of moral panic and social suspicion that drove accusations in Salem as a caution for ourselves today. 

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• 8/22/2022
  

  What Elizabeth Johnson’s Exoneration Teaches about the Salem Witch Hunt

  by Tony Fels

  The Massachusetts legislature recently exonerated Elizabeth Johnson, though her confession and conviction shows how "members of the Puritan communities of early Massachusetts could readily convince themselves that in some way or other, perhaps at a moment of weakness, they really had allowed Satan into their lives."

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  12/18/19
  

  'Learn some history': Mayor of Salem, Mass., blasts Trump over witch trials

  The official said the brutal killings in her city bear no resemblance to what the president is talking about.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/9/19
  

  Rudy Giuliani comparing impeachment to the Salem witch trials is a little right and a lot wrong, expert says

  Featuring historian Emerson W. Baker. 

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• 6-10-18
  

  What the Salem witches can teach us about how we treat women today

  by Connie Hassett-Walker

  We must stop targeting nonconforming, vulnerable women.

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• SOURCE: AHA
  4-17-18 (accessed)
  

  "WITCH HUNT!” – What’s the history behind Trump’s tweets?

  by Mary Beth Norton

  One ion the world's preeminent scholars of the Salem witchcraft trials comments on Trump's glib use of the term.

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• SOURCE: History channel
  1-10-18
  

  Study by economists suggests a new explanation for the explosion in witch hunts in the 17th century

  The explanation?  Medieval churches used witch hunts to gain more followers.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-15-17
  

  Roy Moore says he’s a ‘witch hunt’ victim

  by Avi Selk

  Tell that to thousands of women killed in real ones.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-26-17
  

  Where Was the First Woman Condemned for Witchcraft? Not in Salem

  Decades before the trials in Massachusetts, women in Connecticut were being accused. Now, a group of people there is moving to clear the names of the victims.

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• SOURCE: Press Herald
  7-19-17
  

  Memorial erected at site of witch trial hangings

  Salem, Massachusetts recognizes five of the victims on the 325th anniversary of their deaths and vows never to forget.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5-18-17
  

  The Single Greatest Witch Hunt in American History, for Real

  by Stacy Schiff

  Wild accusations, alternative facts, special prosecutors—the Salem witch trials of 1692 had it all.

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• SOURCE: CBS Boston
  1-13-16
  

  Actual Site of Salem Witch Hangings Discovered

  After nearly three centuries of conflicting beliefs, the city of Salem confirms a team of scholars verified the site where 19 innocent people were hanged during the 1692 witch trials as Proctor’s Ledge.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9-7-15
  

  Inside the Salem Witch Trials

  by Stacy Schiff

  Diabolical doings in a Puritan village.

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• SOURCE: The Bangor Daily News
  1-20-15
  

  York professor explores potential ties between Salem witch trials, early raid on Maine town

  Professor Emerson Baker believes an Indian attack was a key trigger for the Salem, Massachusetts, witch hunts.

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• SOURCE: Oxford University Press Blog
  10-21-14
  

  The Salem Witch Trials (infographic)

  by Emerson "Tad" Baker

  The Salem Witch Trials of 1692-1693 were by far the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft hysteria in American history.