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'A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience' by Emerson W. Baker. Oxford University Press (New York, 2014), 400 pp., $29.95.

Your pandemic listening may just have primed you for the most well-informed night you've ever had at the theater.

A musical that was in development over the last decade and was last seen by an audience here in the Bay Area, 'Paradise Square,' is planning a Broadway run starting next February.

The Social Order Like other great metropolises, New York seems prone to crises. A full list of them, ranging across the city’s four-century history, would require a thick tome and make one wonder how a city beset by such horrors could survive, much less thrive. Defining a crisis, though, is subjective. Some, like 9/11 or the Covid-19 pandemic, clearly fit the bill. But what about the Great Garbage Strike of 1968, when 7,000 sanitation workers refused to collect trash for nine days? Or the summer of 1977, which included an infamous blackout, followed by rioting and looting—while serial kil...

In 1863, mobs of white New Yorkers terrorized Black people. The response has something to teach us. By Elizabeth Mitchell Ms. Mitchell is a journalist and the author of four nonfiction books, including “Lincoln’s Lie: A True Civil War Caper Through Fake News, Wall Street and the White House.” Feb. 18, 2021 Credit...Ricardo Santos A mob murdered 23-year-old Abraham Franklin at 27th Street and Seventh Avenue in New York City. He had hurried to visit his mother to pray by her side for her protection when the rioters began raging from Downtown to Uptown. Just as he finished his pra...