Beyond Salem: The Badass Grandmother and the Stamford Witch Trials When most people think of colonial witch hunts, their minds go straight to Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. However, Connecticut was actually the first of the American colonies to execute a person for witchcraft, beginning with Alice Young in 1647—decades before the Salem hysteria. By […]
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Travel in Time with Dan | Saratoga, New York — October 7, 1777 ⚠️ Author’s Note: The following is a fictional historical interview. Benedict Arnold (1741–1801) was a real American general whose military career produced some of the most extraordinary acts of battlefield heroism in the Revolutionary War… and whose name became, in the end,
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