17th century

Provides information about what people ate during colonial times in America, where the food came from, how Native Americans helped early settlers, where people ate, and how modern eating habits compare to those of the colonists.

Describes the major events that occurred in Europe in 1688 and explains how those events had a lasting impact on world history.

Reexamines the Salem witch trials in light of modern psychology and feminism.

A short study of the Salem witch trials that began in 1691 in the small village of Salem, Massachusetts, in which twenty people were executed for the crime of witchcraft.

Traces the events leading to the arrival of the first group of Jews in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in 1654 and describes how they adapted and eventually prospered under Dutch, and later British, rule.

There is a popular and romantic myth about Rembrandt and the Jewish people. One of history's greatest artists, we are often told, had a special affinity for Judaism. With so many of Rembrandt's works devoted to stories of the Hebrew Bible, and with his apparent penchant for Jewish themes and the sympathetic portrayal of Jewish faces, it is no wonder that the myth has endured for centuries. Rembrandt's Jewsputs this myth to the test as it examines both the legend and the reality of Rembrandt's relationship to Jews and Judaism.

Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin, having agreed to handle the sale of her grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, Massachusetts, comes across an ancient key while going through the house which holds a piece of parchment with the name Deliverance Dane written on it, and in her efforts to discover more about the mysterious Deliverance, Connie soon finds herself having visions of the Salem witch trials and wondering about the extent of her family's connection to history.

In 1752, Sarah Carrier Chapman writes a letter to her granddaughter revealing a secret she has buried in her heart for over half a century. After Sarah and her family arrived in Andover, they encounter a community stricken by superstition and fear due to Native-American raids and the spread of a plague. Suddenly the Puritans believe that heretics in their town are responsible and the witchcraft trials begin. Sarah's mother Martha is among those who are arrested.