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Salem Witch Trials, Part Two: Hysteria and Persecution

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 29 January 2025

This entry was posted in History and tagged A Candle in the Dark, A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft, Abigail Faulkner, Abigail Hobbs, Abigail Williams, Alice Parker, Andover, Ann Foster, Ann Pudeator, Ann Putnam Jr., Antichrist, Barbados, Bartholomew Gedney, Betty Parris, Bridget Bishop, Britain, capitulum Episcopi, Caribbean, Catholicism, Charles I, Charles II, Christian humanism, Christian humanists, Christianity, Christians, Church of England, colonies, Connecticut, Constantine the Great, Cotton Mather, Court of Oyer and Terminer, Daemonologie, Devil, Dorcas Hoar, Dorothy Good, Early Church, Elizabeth How, Elizabeth Hubbard, Elizabeth Procter, England, English Civil Wars, George Burroughs, George Corwin, Giles Cory, Glorious Revolution, Gloucester, Gregorian Reforms, Hammer of the Witches, Heinrich Kramer, hysteria, Increase Mather, James II, John Alden, John Barton, John Emerson, John Gaule, John Indian, John Procter, Jonathan Corwin, judges, Latin Christendom, Malleus Maleficarum, Margaret Scott, Martha Carrier, Martha Cory, Martha Tyler, Mary Bradbury, Mary Esty, Mary Lacey Jr., Mary Lacey Sr., Mary Parker, Mary Sibley, Mary Tyler, Mary Warren, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Matthew Hopkins, Mercy Good, millenarianism, Nathaniel Saltonstall, New England, Nicholas Noyes, Oliver Cromwell, Papal Bull, Papal Revolution, Parliament, Privy Council, Protectorate, Protestant Reformation, Protestantism, Protestants, Puritanism, Puritans, Rebecca Eames, Rebecca Nurse, Reformation, religious wars, Roger Toothaker, Roman Catholic Church, Royalists, Salem, Salem Girls, Salisbury, Samuel Parris, Samuel Pepys, Samuel Sewall, Samuel Wardwell, Samuel Willard, Sarah Cloyce, Sarah Good, Sarah Osburn, Sarah Wildes, Satan, sectarianism, Select Cases of Conscience touching Witches and Witchcrafts, slaves, spectral evidence, Stamford, sugar islands, Summis desiderantes affectibus, Susannah Martin, theology, Thomas Ady, Thomas Brattle, Thomas Danforth, Thomas Fiske, Thomas Newton, Thomas Putnam, Tituba, touch test, Wars of Religion, Wars of the Three Kingdoms, Whore of Babylon, William Milborne, William Perkins, William Phips, William Stoughton, Wilmot Redd, witch craze, witch panic, witchcraft, witches, Witchfinder General on January 29, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

A Note on Massachusetts and Slavery

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 January 2025

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This entry was posted in History and tagged abolitionism, Africa, American Revolution, American War of Independence, Atlantic slave trade, Congregationalists, Doctor Johnson, English Civil Wars, History, John Adams, King Philip’s War, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Massachusetts Body of Liberties, Metacom War, Nine Years’ War, Pequot War, propaganda, Protestantism, Puritanism, Puritans, Quakers, Salem witch panics, Salem witch trials, Samuel Johnson, Sir Henry Vane, slavery, Triangular Trade on January 26, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Salem Witch Trials, Part One: Massachusetts on the Eve of the Panic

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 January 2025

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Act of Uniformity, Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, Anabaptism, Antichrist, Archbishop William Laud, assassinations, Austria, Aztecs, Baptists, Bible, Boston, Brazil, cannibalism, Catholicism, Charles I, Charles II, Charles V, Chosen People, Christianity, Christians, Church of England, Commonwealth, Declaration of Indulgence, Devil, Diet of Worms, Dutch Republic, Edmund Andros, Edward Whalley, Elizabeth I, English Civil Wars, Fifth Monarchists, Fifth Monarchy Men, Florida, Francis Higginson, germ theory, Glorious Revolution, Good Old Cause, Great Migration, Habsburgs, Henry Bouquet, High Church, Holy Ghost, Holy Roman Empire, Holy Spirit, Hugh Peter, Huguenots, human sacrifice, Incas, Increase Mather, Intelligence, Interregnum, Ireland, Israel, James I, James II, Jamestown, Jean Ribault at Charlesfort, Jeffery Amherst, Jesus, Johann Cochlaeus, John Endecott, John Winthrop, King James Bible, King Philip, King Philip’s War, Leif Erikson, liberalism, Lost Colony, Louis XIV, Mammon, Marcus Antonius Plencic, Martin Luther, Mary I, Mary II, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Mayflower, Metacom, Naumkeag, Navigation Acts, Netherlands, New World, Newfoundland, Nine Years’ War, Nonconformism, Nonconformists, Norsemen, Nova Scotia, Oliver Cromwell, paganism, pagans, Personal Rule, Philip II, Pilgrim Fathers, Plymouth Colony, Pope, popery, Popish Plot, pox blanket, Protectorate, Protestant Reformation, Protestantism, Protestants, Province of Massachusetts Bay, Puritans, Quakers, Raid on the Medway, Regicides, religious wars, René Goulaine de Laudonnière, Rhode Island, Roanoke Island, Roger Williams, Roman Catholic Church, Royal Charter, Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, Salem, Salem witch trials, Samuel Parris, Satan, Secret Treaty of Dover, sectarianism, Sir George Downing, Sir Henry Vane, Sir William Phips, smallpox blanket, sola scriptura, Spain, Spanish Armada, Sun King, Test Act, The Book of Common Prayer, Thirty Years’ War, Thomas Venner, Titus Oates, Vikings, Virgin Mary, Wars of the Three Kingdoms, Whigs, William Goffe, William III, William of Orange, William Trent, Williamite War, witch panic, witchcraft, witches on January 25, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Profiles its “Hidden Figures”

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 11 January 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Jihadi Biographies, Jihadi Output and tagged Abd al-Aziz ibn Abdallah al-Baz, Abd al-Munim al-Badawi, Abd al-Nasser al-Qardash, Abdul Munim al-Badawi, Abdullah Azzam, Abdullah bin Najm al-Hilali, Abdullah Qardash, Abdulrahman al-Qaduli, Abdulrahman Ibn Mustafa al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abdurrahman al-Qaduli, Abu Abdullah Rashid al-Baghdadi, Abu Abdulrahman al-Dulaymi, Abu Ahmad al-Hilali al-Adnani, Abu al-Ghadiya al-Shami, Abu al-Ghadiya al-Suri, Abu al-Hareth, Abu al-Harith, Abu al-Harith al-Iraqi, Abu al-Mughira al-Qahtani, Abu al-Nasr al-Libi, Abu al-Nasser al-Libi, Abu Ala al-Afri, Abu Ala al-Qurayshi, Abu Alaa al-Afri, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Ali al-Qurdash al-Turkmani, Abu Anas al-Shami, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, Abu Azzam al-Hilali al-Adnani, Abu Azzam al-Iraqi, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Bakr al-Iraqi, Abu Ghraib, Abu Hafs al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Abu Hassan al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Husayn al-Husayni al-Qurayshi, Abu Ibrahim al-Ansari, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Ibrahim al-Zaydi, Abu Iman, Abu Ishaq al-Askari, Abu Jasim al-Iraqi, Abu Khattab al-Falluji, Abu Mariya al-Qahtani, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Muhammad al-Furqan, Abu Muhammad al-Ghassani, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Muhammad al-Lubnani, Abu Muhannad al-Suwaydawi, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Muslim al-Turkmani, Abu Mutaz al-Qurayshi, Abu Nabil al-Anbari, Abu Nabil al-Zubaydi, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Shahd al-Mashadani, Abu Sulayman al-Nasser, Abu Talha al-Ansari, Abu Talha al-Hamdani al-Adnani, Abu Talha al-Mawsuli, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Qurdash, Abu Umar al-Shihawi al-Dulaymi, Adnan al-Bilawi, Adnan al-Suwaydawi, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmad al-Sharaa, Al-Faqih Abu Khattab al-Dulaymi, Al-Harari, Al-Haras al-Jamhuri al-Khas, Al-Jazeera Camp, al-Majlis Shura al-Mujahideen, Al-Nasser Lideen Allah, Al-Qa’qa ibn Amr, al-salaf al-salih, Al-Salul, Amir Muhammad al-Mawla, Ansar al-Islam, Arab Empire, Army of Hardship, Army of Truth, Awwad al-Zuba’i, Awwad al-Zuba’i al-Qahtani, Baath Party, Baathism, Ba’th Party, Ba’thism, Badran Turki Hishan al-Mazidi, Baghuz, Battle of Fallujah, Battle of Tal Afar, Caliphate Army, Coptic Christians, Copts, Dar Islami, Delegated Committee, Du’a Khalil Aswad, extremism, Fadel al-Hiyali, faith campaign, Faiz al-Athari, Fallujah, Grand Mufti, Group of Monotheism and Salafism, Haji Abdullah al-Afri Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Haji Bakr, Haji Dawood, Haji Dawud, Haji Iman, Haji Mutaz, Hamid al-Ani, Hamid al-Muhammadi, Hamid al-Salafi, Hamid al-Zawa, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hilal al-Ameri, Hilf al-Mutayibeen, HTS, Hudayfa al-Batawi, Ibrahim al-Badri, ideology, IIP, Iran, Iraq, Iraq al-Ameri, Iraqi Islamic Party, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamism, Jabhat al-Nusra, jahiliyya, Jamaat al-Tawhid al-Salafiyya, Jamaat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, Jama’at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, Jaysh al-Siddiq, Jaysh al-Usra, Jaysh Dabiq, Jaysh Khilafa, jihadism, jihadists, Khalid ibn al-Walid, Khalidiya Island, Kharijites, Khattab al-Ameri, Khattab al-Faysal, khawarij, Kurdistan, Libya, Manaf al-Rawi, Maysar al-Jaburi, Maysar Ali Musa Abdullah al-Jaburi, monotheism, Muayyad al-Salih, Muayyad Talih, muhajireen, Muhammad al-Issawi, Muhammad Khalaf Shakar, Muharib al-Jaburi al-Qahtani, mujahideen, Mujahideen Shura Council, Mullah Krekar, Muslim Brotherhood, Mustafa Ramadan Darwish, Najmadin Faraj Ahmad, Numan al-Zaydi, Omar Hadid, Omar Yousef Juma, Omar Yusuf Juma, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, pious predecessors, Prophet Muhammad, RAND Corporation, Rawa Camp, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Salafis, Salafism, Samir al-Khlifawi, Saudi Arabia, sectarianism, Shaker al-Badri, shari’a, Shi’ism, Subhi al-Badri, Sulayman Khalid Darwish, Syria, Taha Abd al-Raheem Abdallah Bakr al-Ghassani, Taha Falaha, Taha Subhi Falaha, Tanzim al-Qaeda, terrorism, Thamir al-Dulaymi, Umar al-Assafi, Umar bin Hadid al-Dulaymi, Umar Hadid, Umar Yusef al-Juma, Umar Yusef Juma, Umar Yusef Jum’a, Usama bin Laden, Wael al-Ta’i, Wahhabi, Wahhabism, Wissam al-Zubaydi, Yasin Qardash, Yazidis on January 11, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Jewish Influence At the Origins of Islam

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 November 2024

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This entry was posted in History, History of Islam and tagged Abbasid Revolution, Abbasids, Abd al-Malik, Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr, Abraham, al-Hajar al-Aswad, al-Masjid al-Haram, Arab Empire, Arabs, Babylonian Talmud, Bayt al-Haram, Bible, Black Stone, Christianity, Christians, Commander of the Believers, Commander of the Faithful, Constantine the Great, Constitution of Medina, Doctrina Jacobi, Eusebius, Fred Donner, G.J. Reinink, Gethsemane, Golgotha, Hadith, Hagar, Hagarenes, Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World, hajj, Haramayn, Ibn al-Zubayr, India, Ioudaismos, Ishmael, Ishmaelites, Islamic Tradition, isra, Israel, jahiliya, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jewish, Jewish Temple, Jews, John of Sedreh, John Wansbrough, Justinian, Kaaba, ka’ba, Land of Israel, Letter of John of Sedreh, Libya, Mecca, Medina, Mesopotamia, Mhaggraye, mi’raj, Michael Cook, Michael Penn, monotheism, Moses, Muawiya, mushrikun, Muslims, Noah, paganism, pagans, Patricia Crone, Pentateuch, Persian Empire, Persians, plague, Promised Land, Prophet Ibrahim, Prophet Muhammad, Qibla, Qurayshi, Qur’an, Roman Empire, Romans, Sahih al-Bukhari, Sassanids, Sebeos, sectarian milieu, Simon ben Yohai, Sunna, Syria, Syria Palaestina, Tachkastan, Tanakh, Teaching of Jacob, Temple Mount, The Letter of John of Sedreh, The Secrets of Rabbi Simon ben Yohai, Torah, True Cross, Umar I, Umar ibn Khattab, Umayr ibn Sa’d al-Ansari, Virgin Mary, Yathrib on November 28, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Assessing the Early-Codification Theory of the Qur’an

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 19 November 2024

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This entry was posted in History, History of Islam and tagged Abbasids, Abu Bakr, ahruf, Angelika Neuwirth, Arabs, Battle of Yamama, Birmingham Qur’an, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Caliph Uthman, canon, Christianity, Christians, church, Church Fathers, Dead Sea Scrolls, Gabriel Said Reynolds, Gerd Puin, gnostic gospels, Gospel of Basilides, Great Mosque of Sanaa, hafiz, Himyar Kingdom, Hippolytus, Irenaeus, Ishmaelites, Islam, Jesus, Jews, John Burton, John Wansbrough, Judaism, Origen, Persia, Prophet Muhammad, Qur’an, sahaba, Sanaa palimpsest, Sanaa Qur’an, Ur-Qur’an, Yemen, Zayd ibn Thabit on November 19, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Martin Luther King and J. Edgar Hoover

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 November 2024

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Alien Registration Act, Andrew Goodman, Baptists, Bayard Rustin, Benjamin Davis, Black Panthers, Bolshevik coup, Bolshevik Revolution, Bolshevism, Brandenburg v. Ohio, Christianity, Christians, civil rights, Clarence Jones, COINTELPRO, Communism, Communist Party, Counterintelligence Program, CPUSA, Ethel Rosenberg, Eugene Dennis, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Francis Xavier Waldron, George Wallace, Great Migration, Great Terror, Gus Hall, Hunter Pitts O’Dell, informants, Intelligence, Internal Security Act, J. Edgar Hoover, Jack Childs, Jack O’Dell, James Chaney, Jesse Jackson, Jewish-Americans, Jews, JFK, Jim Crow, John F. Kennedy, John Seigenthaler, Joseph Stalin, Julius Rosenberg, KGB, KKK, Korean War, Ku Klux Klan, LBJ, Left-wing extremism, Lyndon B. Johnson, MANHATTAN Project, Martin Luther King, Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Marxists, Michael Schwerner, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Nazi-Soviet Pact, New Left, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, Nobel Peace Prize, Operation BARBAROSSA, peace movement, Poverty Program, racialism, RFK, Robert Kennedy, Ross Barnett, SCLC, Second World War, SNCC, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Soviet Union, spies, Stanley Levison, Stokely Carmichael, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Subversive Activities Control Act, surveillance, urban guerrillas, Vietnam War, Viola Liuzzo, W.E.B. Du Bois, Weather Underground, William C. Sullivan, Yezhovshchina on November 16, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

A Note on Franjo Tuđman, Nationalism, and Historical “Revisionism”

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 October 2024

As Jugoslavija broke down and slid into war in the early 1990s, part of the political warfare between the parties was an effort by Serbia and Bosnia to portray Croatia’s president, Franjo Tuđman, as a “fascist”.

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This entry was posted in Bosnia, History and tagged Alija Izetbegović, Antisemitism, Balkan War, Bosnia, Bosnian War, Communism, Counterintelligence Service, Croatia, disinformation, false flag, Franjo Tuđman, historical revisionism, Independent State of Croatia, Islam, Jews, Jugoslavija, KOS, Muslims, nation, nation-state, nationalism, NDH, Operation LABRADOR, Operation OPERA, Partisans, Party of Democratic Action, SDA, Serbia, Slobodan Drakulić, Slobodan Milošević, Ustasha, Ustashe, Ustaše, Yugoslavia on October 24, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Jews and the Russian Orthodox Church

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 October 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Adolf Hitler, Albigensianism, Albigensians, Aleksander Men, Alexander Men, Alexy II, Antisemitism, Archpriest John Vostorgov, Émile Zola, Bible, Black Hundreds, blood libel, Bolshevik Revolution, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Catharism, Cathars, Catholicism, Christianity, Church Fathers, Communism, Council of Trent, deicide, Dreyfus affair, Ecclesiastical Collegium, End Times, Enlightenment, fascism, February Revolution, Gospels, Grand Prince Vladimir, Greek Orthodox Church, heretics, Hieromonk Heliodorus, Hieromonk Iliodor, Hilarion of Kiev, Ignatius Brianchaninov, Ilarion of Kiev, Islam, Israel, Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin, Ivan Ilyin, Ivan Sanin, Ivan Sergiyev, Ivan Snychev, Ivan the Terrible, Jews, Jews for Jesus, John Chrysostom, John Iliytch Sergieff, John of Kronstadt, Joseph of Volokolamsk, Joseph of Volotsk, Joseph Stalin, Joseph Volotsky, Judaism, Khazars, Kievan Rus, Kirill, laity, Latin Christendom, laymen, liturgy, Metropolitan John, monasticism, monastics, monotheism, Most Holy Synod, Nestor the Chronicler, Nestor the Hagiographer, New Testament, Nikolai Maikov, Nikon of Vologda, Nil Sorski, Nilus of Sora, Old Testament, Orthodox Church, paganism, Pale of Settlement, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus, Patriarchate, Patristic Era, patristics, perestroika, Peter the Great, Philosopher’s Discourse, pogroms, Pope Gregory X, Pope Innocent IV, Primary Chronicle, Protestantism, Protestants, Pyotr I, racism, Reformation, Renaissance, Roman Catholic Church, Romanian Orthodox Church, Russia, Russian Empire, Russian intelligentsia, Russian nationalism, Russian Orthodox Church, S. Bulgakov, Saint Theodosius, Second Vatican Council, secularism, Serbian Orthodox Church, Sergei Bulgakov, Sergei Michailovich Trufanov, Sergei Trufanov, Soviet Union, Synodal era, Tale of Bygone Years, Tanakh, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Theodosius the Cenobiarch, theology, Ukraine, V.I. Ilyin, V.I. Solovyov, Vladimir Gundyayev, Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, Vladimir Solovyov, Vladimir Sviatoslavich, Vladimir the Great, Yuri Tabak on October 10, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Russian Terrorist-Revolutionary Movement: 1845 – 1866

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 September 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged 1848 Revolutions, Alexander Herzen, Alexander I, Alexander II, Alexander Serno-Solovyevich, anarchism, Arthur Koestler, Baron August von Haxthausen, Bolshevik Party, Bolsheviks, Christianity, Communism, Decembrist Revolt, Decembrists, Dmitry Karakozov, Dmitry Pisarev, Enlightenment, equality, French Revolution, Friedrich Engels, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Georgi Plekhanov, ideology, Ivan Turgenev, Jacobinism, Jacobins, Karl Marx, Kolokol, Leo Tolstoy, liberalism, literature, Marxism, materialism, Men of the Forties, Men of the Sixties, Mikhail Bakunin, Mikhail Mikhailov, Mikhail Petrashevsky, mir, Muslim Brotherhood, Narodism, Narodists, Narodniki, Narodniks, Nazis, Nazism, New Man, Nicholas I, Nihilism, Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Nikolai Dobrolyubov, Nikolai Nekrasov, Nikolai Speshnev, Nikolay Ogarev, obshchina, Ossip Komissarov, Pavel Pestel, Peter the Great, populism, Pyotr I, Pyotr Zaichnevsky, revolution, Russia, Russian Idea, Russian intelligentsia, Sayyid Qutb, Science, secret police, Sergey Uvarov, Social Darwinism, socialism, Sovremennik, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Russian Tradition, Third Section, Tibor Szamuely, Tsar, utilitarianism, Varfolomey Zaytsev, Vissarion Belinsky, Vladimir Lenin, What is to Be Done?, Zemlya i Volya on September 30, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

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