An interview with Professor Emerson W. Baker, part 6
Lessons from the 1692 Salem witch hunt.
Category: Q&A
An interview with Professor Emerson W. Baker, part 5
Viewing 17th century beliefs and witchcraft and through modern eyes.
An interview with Professor Emerson W. Baker, part 4
Cotton Mather wrote the only government-approved book about the Salem witch trials.
Governor Phips created one of the first large-scale government coverups in American history by curbing free speech.
An interview with Professor Emerson W. Baker, part 3
Proctor's Ledge
Professor Emerson W. Baker on Salem’s dark tourism and his hope for historical reflection.
An interview with Professor Emerson W. Baker, part 2
Professor Emerson W. Baker on the way Danvers, Massachusetts, honored the victims of the 1692 Salem witch trials.
An interview with Professor Emerson W. Baker, part 1
A student interview with Professor Emerson W. Baker on the triumph and tragedy of the 1692 Salem witch trials.
Looking at Salem from the outside in with J.W. Ocker
An award-winning macabre travel author, J.W. Ocker wrote A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts. WitchesMassBay: In 2015, you spent the month of October in Salem. If you could distill one moment in …
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Why not ergot and the Salem witch trials?
A Q&A with Margo Burns, associate editor and project manager of Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt and expert featured on the Who Do You Think You Are? TV series. WitchesMassBay: What is the premise behind the idea that ergot caused the …
Witches and witchcraft with Tom the tour guide
Thomas O’Brien Vallor has been sharing his knowledge of the 1692 witch hunts with countless tourists for the last 15 years. Unlike ghost tours and campy attractions, Tom tells the Salem story in a way that is respectful, inclusive, and educational. And …
Q&A with Jeanie Roberts on Weave a Web of Witchcraft
Jean M. Roberts recently published Weave a Web of Witchcraft, the story of Hugh and Mary Parsons of Springfield, Massachusetts, who were tried for witchcraft in 1651. Below, we discuss the writer’s craft, the research involved, and how the community …
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