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...
Seventeenth-Century EpidemicsWe are currently experiencing a global pandemic, something few living people have witnessed before. At this time, it is fascinating...
Hands-On Learning ActivitiesHands-On Learning Activities Growing up in early New England was not easy. The pilgrims landed in Plymouth in 1620, and...
Witches as Metaphors: Francisco Goya’s Image of the WitchFrancisco Goya (1746-1828) is considered to be one of the most important Spanish artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries. Born...
