Robert Harrison moved to Austin from Auburn, Alabama, in the late eighties and formed his first band, Cotton Mather. It started with Harrison and cellist Nat Shelton making avant-garde music, but ...

Adriana Mather, whose ancestor, Cotton Mather, was an integral part of the infamous Salem Witch Trials, returns to that cursed town in her new novel, How to Hang a Witch. This YA novel follows a ...

More than a decade ago, an album came out recorded mostly on cassette in a house, never released on a major label — and until last month it had been out of print for almost that long. When Noel ...

“Salem” is the sort of show where nothing is too weird or warped to happen. Witches store animals in people’s bodies, perform dark rites of magic and of course, get entangled in love affairs, in a way ...

Cotton Mather, a prominent Puritan minister from Boston during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, was the furthest thing from a science advocate. Deeply conservative, he argued in defense of the ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The son of influential Puritan minister Increase Mather, Cotton Mather belonged to the Puritan dynasty that shaped the ...

Cotton Mather’s response to an outbreak in his community was inspired by Onesimus’s life story. Perhaps no American community is as polemic as the Puritans. One of its biggest personalities was Cotton ...

Rick Kennedy rewrites the reputation of a reviled Puritan leader. If we remember the Puritan pastor Cotton Mather at all these days, we’re likely to think of him as a meddling, moralistic hypocrite.