While Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed to be a victim of political witch hunts, all concrete evidence to the contrary, his entire campaign against “the enemy within,” or “the deep state,” has been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seventy-eight percent of the people executed for witchcraft in New England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries were women.

HAMMOND, La. (WGNO) — There’s supposed to be food, frolicking and fun at the Louisiana Renaissance Festival, which recreates the 14th through 17th Century Renaissance period. WGNO found one woman, who ...

In May, 1649, Sarah Edwards’ cow began producing strangely colored milk. Usually, the heifer gave 6 pints per milking, but it had begun to yield only 2, and of an odd saffron color at that. The cow ...

People often associate witch trials with victims being burned at the stake. The Salem Witch Trials, and any other trials that ...

Many things influence human behavior, and I don’t claim to understand all of them. I have had the most experience with the early New England Puritans' influence on how Americans act and react to the ...

I don't know whether the Spanish Inquisition or 17th-century European religious wars significantly informed the Founding Fathers' ideas on the separation of church and state, as Arnold R. Post of ...