In September of 1693, just after the Salem witchcraft hysteria, a Boston girl, Margaret Rule, convinced the town that demons possessed her....
In the 1860s and 1870s, many Americans grew obsessed with spiritualism and communicating with the dead. The movement, which began in 1848...
John Humphrey Noyes started out in the 19th century as a conventional Yale-trained minister until he found out he was perfect and...
In 1692, the witch trials in Salem finally ended the life Susannah Martin. It was the culmination of a 25-year-long period during...
Lewis Tappan hated slavery as much as he hated people who didn’t pay their debts. In 1841, he found he could do...
The New England Divorce Reform League sprang up in the late 1800s in response to a divorce crisis in the country. The...