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Arthur A. Miller

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Arthur Miller on Sweltering Summers Before Air-Conditioning

The city in summer floated in a daze that moved otherwise sensible people to repeat endlessly the brainless greeting “Hot enough for ya?”

by Arthur A. Miller via The New Yorker on June 15, 1998

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Map of John Proctor's 15 acres of property in Ipswich, MA

"The Crucible" and John and Elizabeth Proctor of Salem

It is worth digging a bit deeper into the family matters between John and Elizabeth.

by Benjamin Ray via Commonplace on February 7, 2023

Hollywood screenwriter Samuel Ornitz speaks before the House Un-American Activities Committee

First Amendment in Flux: When Free Speech Protections Came Up Against the Red Scare

The congressional anti-communist hearings of the 1940s are a reminder that freedom of speech today is even more fragile than it may seem.

by Jodie Childers via The Conversation on November 20, 2025

Collage of two photos of Marilyn Monroe.

Who Was the Real Marilyn Monroe?

"Blonde," a heavily fictionalized film by Andrew Dominik, explores the star's life and legend in a narrative that's equal parts glamorous and disturbing.

by Grant Wong via Smithsonian Magazine on September 26, 2022

A witch's hat and crooked stick, with the words "rags to witches"

Has Witch City Lost Its Way?

They’re hip, business-savvy, and know how to cast a spell: How a new generation of witches and warlocks selling $300 wands conquered Salem.

by Kathryn Miles via Boston Magazine on October 22, 2021

Person holding suitcase at gas station with other person in background

Night Terrors

The creator of ‘The Twilight Zone’ dramatized isolation and fear but still believed in the best of humanity.

by Andrew Delbanco via New York Review of Books on October 29, 2020

Salem witch trials

An Embarrassment of Witches

What's the real history behind Trump's 'witch hunt' tweets?

by Mary Beth Norton via Perspectives on History on April 10, 2018

Harvey Weinstein

No, There Is No Witch Hunt Against Powerful Men

They're the hunters, not the hunted.

by Michelle D. Brock via Made By History on October 18, 2017

Woodcut illustration of "Witches Apprehended" showing the water test accused witches would undergo. Stamford has its own history of witch trials.

Haunted Stamford: 1692 Witch Trial

In the same year as the Salem Witch Trials, a more common and lesser known witch hunt occurred in Stamford, Connecticut.

by Maggie Gordon via Stamford Advocate on October 31, 2013

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