Examples of Salem in the following topics:
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- The Salem witch trials of 1692 were the earliest examples of mass hysteria in the country.
- The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693.
- Prior to 1692, there had been rumors of witchcraft in villages neighboring Salem Village and other towns.
- The central figure in this 1876 illustration of the courtroom is usually identified as Mary Walcott, one of the "afflicted" girls called as a witness at the Salem Witch Trials in 1692-93.
- Evaluate what the Salem witch trials reveal about the role of religion and the role of women in the colonies
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- 18th century engraving of Shipping Scene in Salem, Massachusetts by Balthasar Leizelt.
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- New citizens are welcomed during a naturalization ceremony in Salem, MA.
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- The most famous witch trials in American history, however, took place from February 1692 to May 1693 in and around coastal settlements near Salem, Massachusetts.
- This work by Reverend Cotton Mather was written to justify the Salem Witch Trials of the 1690s.
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- Hysteria is often associated with movements like the Salem Witch Trials, the Red Scare, McCarthyism, and Satanic ritual abuse, where it is better understood through the related sociological term of moral panic.
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- Marisa Beagle, sophomore history major, and her daughter, Noelle, sit in the parking lot of the Salem Campus, where she attends school 45 minutes away from her home in East Palestine, near the Pennsylvania border.
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- The first women's antislavery society was created in 1832 by free black women from Salem, Massachusetts.
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- The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century, situated around the present-day cities of Salem and Boston.
- The most notorious cases occurred in Salem Village in 1692.
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- Peter Salem, who had been freed by his owner to join the Framingham militia was one of the blacks in the militia.
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- The early settlements in West Jersey were Salem and Burlington.