The Metaphor of Salem and the New York Slave Rebellion of 1741Today the Salem witch trials are perhaps the most well-known witch-hunt to have taken place in the Western world. At...
Witches in ComicsBy: Jonah Hoffmann The witch is a pop culture staple appearing in various media types with real-life roots that are...
Movie MondayBy: Jonah Hoffmann This blog series is a celebration of witchcraft in cinema and focuses on some of the films...
Remembering Candy and Mary BlackBy: Jonah Hoffmann The Salem witch trials of 1692 involved a number of individuals identified as key players in the...
The 17th Century World of WitchcraftBy: Jonah Hoffmann This blog series focuses on specific countries or regions of the Early Modern European world during the...
The Beginning of the Witch Trials in PolandThe Beginning of the Witch Trials in Poland: The period of ecclesiastical courts Guest blog written by Łukasz Hajdrych On...
Witches: Evolving Perceptions One Year LaterMarch 13, 2020 marks the one-year anniversary of the Witches: Evolving Perceptions exhibit renovation. On this day, years of hard...
In Praise of Black WitchesThis year we are focusing on some of the incredible pop-culture witches created and portrayed by black artists over the...
Fantastic Women FridaysWelcome to Fantastic Women Fridays! This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the nineteenth amendment, granting women the right to...
Seventeenth-Century CometsAccording to the NASA website, “Comets are cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock and dust that orbit the Sun. When...
