Religion and Social Movements
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349Epes Sargent Tries to Get America to Believe in Ghosts
In the 1860s and 1870s, many Americans became obsessed with spiritualism and communicating with the dead. The movement, which began in 1848...
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2.9KJohn Humphrey Noyes Finds Out Sex and Silverware Don’t Mix
John Humphrey Noyes started out in the 19th century as a conventional Yale-trained minister until he found out he was perfect and...
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2.8K2Susannah Martin’s Witchcraft Trials Lasted Nearly 25 Years
In 1692, the witch trials in Salem finally put an end to Susannah Martin's life. It was the culmination of a 25-year-long...
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1.9K1Lewis Tappan, the Man Who Hired Abe Lincoln to Spy on Sinners
Lewis Tappan hated slavery as much as he hated people who didn’t pay their debts. In 1841, he found he could do...
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1.5KEquity, Maine Meets the New England Divorce Reform League
The New England Divorce Reform League sprang up in the late 1800s in response to a divorce crisis in the country. The...
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1.7K1Eunice Cole, The Witch of Hampton Who Could Not Be Stopped
Virtually the entire town of Hampton, NH believed Eunice Cole was a witch, and from 1656 to 1680 she was hauled into...
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1.3K10Six Amazing Indian Women From New England
Indian women faced double discrimination since the first European colonists arrived in the Americas. Many fought back against the prejudice that destroyed...
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6703William Pynchon Leaves Connecticut in 1637 and Takes a City With Him
Springfield, Mass., and the rest of Western Massachusetts, might well be part of Connecticut today if William Pynchon had not decided to...
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408Five Fast Facts About the New England Roots of W.E.B. Du Bois
For more than 50 years, William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) DuBois was a leading intellectual in America. A writer, activist and teacher, he...