Brooklyn by the Book: Stacy Schiff

Thursday, November 12, 2015 7:30 pmCongregation Beth ElohimThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials in The Witches: Salem, 1692. The panic began when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and a 75-year-old man crushed to death. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American hist