• The Salem Witch Trials Podcast

  • By: Greg Houle
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The Salem Witch Trials Podcast

By: Greg Houle
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  • The Salem Witch Trials Podcast takes a fast-paced and episodic examination of the witch hysteria in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The brief yet insightful episodes harness the knowledge of experts to help illuminate both the chronology of events as well the deeper context surrounding the witch crisis, giving listeners a better understanding of this fascinating and tragic event in early American history.
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Episodes
  • Elizabeth Howe's Past Comes Back to Haunt Her

    Elizabeth Howe's Past Comes Back to Haunt Her
    Dec 18 2024

    Elizabeth Howe seemed just like any other hard-working Puritan in seventeenth-century New England, but her past came back to haunt her once the witch crisis exploded in the spring of 1692. Her tragic story highlights the fear and scapegoating that fueled the witch hysteria.

    • Learn more about host Greg Houle's new novel: The Putnams of Salem: A Novel of Power and Betrayal During the Salem Witch Trials.
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    24 mins
  • The Infamous Susannah Martin

    The Infamous Susannah Martin
    Dec 3 2024

    An early settler of Salisbury, Massachusetts, Susannah Martin's reputation, as well as a series of accusations made against her earlier in her life, meant that she was destined to become a target of the witch hunt.

    • Learn more about host Greg Houle's new novel: The Putnams of Salem: A Novel of Power and Betrayal During the Salem Witch Trials.
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    21 mins
  • The Mayhem Spreads West

    The Mayhem Spreads West
    Nov 19 2024

    We discuss how the frontier town of Andover, MA, located a dozen miles west of Salem, gets caught up in the growing witch hysteria in 1692. We're joined by Martha Tubinis, director of programs at the Andover Center for History and Culture, and Toni Armstrong, a PhD candidate in the History of Art and Architecture at Boston University, and a Weekend Research Assistant at the Andover Center for History and Culture.

    • Learn more about the Andover Center for History and Culture. And check out their Substack, History Buzz.
    • Learn more about host Greg Houle's new novel: The Putnams of Salem: A Novel of Power and Betrayal During the Salem Witch Trials.
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    33 mins

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