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Join us to hear how Salem's White family played a key role in nearly every aspect of Salem’s rise and fall as a maritime empire, including Captain Joseph's infamous murder. Click here to buy tickets.
Join us for Salem Ancestry Days as we welcome Dan Eshet and Regina Kazyulina to talk about one of the many immigrant communities on the North Shore. Since the end of the 1980s, more than 10,000 Jewish refugees from the former Soviet Union have settled in the Greater Boston area. Their arrival represented the culmination...
The exhibition begins with the history of slavery and the arrival of Prince Pompey. Then it travels through the life of Prince Pompey as a slave. It moves to Pompey establishing the first Black voting system, called Negro Election Day. Then it gradually takes you through black voter suppression. It returns to Negro Election Day...
Join us for the in-person workshop Rigging a Tall Ship presented at Salem Maritime National Historic Site. About this event *We are now able to offer this program at a lower rate of $15/person. Join us for Rigging a Tall Ship, part of The Art of Wooden Boatbuilding: A Field Institute in Preserving the Past exploring the principles behind...
Though the Salem trials of 1692 are today one of the most famous in the Western world, they were far from the largest or deadliest. Nearly two decades before Salem, the Torsåker parish in Sweden was overtaken by a terrible witchcraft panic. In just one day in 1675, 71 people were beheaded and burned at...
