Unobscured

Taunts in red ink sent a wave of fear through London. The Metropolitan police knew they had to respond. So the forces un... Read more

It was all wide open. Great awakenings shattered the old religions. Showmen made spectacles of cutting-edge science. Rad... Read more

The stage is set, the characters are introduced, and the spell is cast. Welcome to Salem Village, home to a diverse and ... Read more

The child stars of spiritualism were growing up. And facing a whole host of new realities about their world. Were the sp... Read more

Even though Salem had been without an official charter from England for almost a decade, there was no question that witc... Read more

Between the examinations and the hangings, it was easy to see the witch trials as a battle fought inside the courtroom. ... Read more

The news was grim. Across the south, slave states were withdrawing from the nation. In the north, some spiritualists saw... Read more

How does a community recover from a tragedy that claims over two dozen lives? How do they even begin to pick up the piec... Read more

As the trials continued to roll forward in Salem, crushing more and more lives beneath its wheels, the panic began to sp... Read more

Who could have imagined how quickly their message would cross oceans? Even as they traveled from city to city, the first... Read more

With the Court of Oyer and Terminer officially disbanded, the fog of uncertainly rolled into Salem. What would happen to... Read more

The witchcraft panic had been gathering victims for months by the time George Burroughs was hanged, and many of them wer... Read more

Turmoil swept England, from Whitechapel's mean streets to the halls of power. Public servants savaged each other in pers... Read more

A terrorist bombing campaign left London crawling with spies. Paranoia and isolation afflicted everyone, from the clande... Read more

It's easy for a community to turn on the outsiders among them. The Salem witch trials had become a textbook example of t... Read more

Until now, the daily flood of examinations had been a temporary fix while everyone waited for the new government to set ... Read more

The movement continued to swell. It found friends in high places. But everywhere it went, it found entrenched beliefs th... Read more

Spiritualists weren't the only ones who believed the dead could still be heard. That belief came trailing many stories. ... Read more

Some people saw the growing witch panic in Salem as a threat to their lives, and they tried to run and hide. Others saw ... Read more

While the events of the Salem witch trials began within the borders of the Salem village community, many of the forces t... Read more