Why are the Salem Witch Trials still studied today?

Why should it not be studied? Because it's still being repeated even after the events have passed, I do not think people are learning from past mistakes. read more

The Salem Witch Trials are important to today because they have hugely impacted the way society perceives Witchcraft, the people who practice Witchcraft, and today's media (Books, movies). The Salem Witch Trials were a strategy from the 16th to 18th century designed to abolish Witchcraft as a practice or system of belief. read more

The Salem Witch Trials have become a metaphor for American society at its most paranoid and self-destructive. In that sense, the significance of those acts in 1692 remain as salient today as they did when Arthur Miller illuminated the historical parallel between 1692 Salem and early 1950s Washington, D.C. read more