Salem Witch Trials

Alexander McQueen (1969-2010) Evening dress (detail), from the In Memory of Elizabeth How, Salem, 1692, Ready-to-wear collection, fall/winter 2007 Velvet, glass beads, and satin
The Salem Witch Trials Revisited at New-York Historical Society
Three hundred years after the Salem Witch Trials, we are still reckoning and learning from this period of American intolerance and injustice. The trials of 1692-1693 led to the deaths of twenty-five…
Tompkins Harrison Matteson painting of a court room full of white people in old-fashioned clothes pointing at each other and fainting
The Salem Witch Trials' Art and Artifacts
The Peabody Essex Museum takes a more personal look at the Salem Witch Trials this fall.