Occultism and nation-building have been strangely intertwined, particularly in the gestation of America, writes Ed Simon ...

Those Colonies often had official churches that used government ... Ironically, Congregationalists, who had dominated religious life in Massachusetts and other New England states for two centuries, ...

Whether it’s children sporting pointy hats, Hocus Pocus playing on repeat, or homes adorned with bubbling cauldrons and ...

Within a year of their wedding, amid an increasingly hostile climate for religious nonconformists, the Williamses left England for the new Massachusetts Bay Colony. Carrington-Farmer theorizes ...

Among these waves of Puritan colonists perhaps the most important migration occurred in 1630, when John Winthrop led the so-called Winthrop Fleet, with 700 colonists travelling on eleven ships. This ...

We have to start with one of the most infamous colonial witch hunts in the world - the Salem Witch Trials. Salem is a small town in Massachusetts, and in the late 1600s, became an epicenter of ...

(John Adams, Address to the Massachusetts Militia ... for America to embrace the failed government-religious partnerships of ...

The University of Wisconsin Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies hosted Halls Visiting Scholar Emily ...

In art history, the Salem witch trials often take the form of the most cinematic moments: arrest, prosecution, and execution.

By Julia Beauregard Hometown Weekly Editor The Medfield Public Library (MPL) and the Medfield Historical Society co-sponsored ...

No, said an Eighth Circuit panel in U.S. v. Jackson earlier this year; yesterday, the court refused to rehear the case en banc, so the answer is still no ...