Nineteen men and women hanged and one pressed to death for heresy. These were the results of the ever-famous Salem witch trials. These astonishing facts were discovered on November 21, 2013 on the website http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projectts/ftrials/salem/salem.htm, dedicated to information regarding the Salem Witchcraft Trials1. The topic the site covers is intriguing and the factual evidence it provides allows visitors to look at it for hours without getting bored. This website serves as a good source for learning history because it caters to a wide variety of audiences, provides an assortment of historical materials from different perspectives, and manages to engage and entertain the visitor in an organized manner. The website focuses on a central topic: Salem Witch Trials and is aimed at a wide audience. The Salem Witch Trials were a series of trials held in 1692 in Puritan Massachusetts where men and women were accused of witchcraft. The site's goal is to provide information about the trials, including who was involved, the legitimacy behind the trials, and the hysteria that resulted. The website is part of a larger series of websites created by Douglas O. Linder called "Famous Trials", a professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Law2. The website creator initially created the site for his students as a learning portal, but it has now been expanded to serve a wide variety of people. There are modules for law students and even 6th year students2. The Salem Witch Trials website provides factual information about the trials and a wide range of audiences can use the web...... middle of paper ...... in addition it provides a massive amount historical documents. information on the subject in a reliable and impartial manner using real documents. Finally, the good aspects of the website significantly outweigh the bad aspects of the site. It is a reliable source for learning history because in today's society the most accessible way to learn history is the Internet. There is no way to go back in time to witness history, so it is imperative that historians use the correct sources to learn history online, such as the one analyzed today on the Witch Trials of Salem. Works Cited1Douglas O. Linder. "Salem Witchcraft Trials 1692". Douglas O. Linder, November 21, 2013, http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm.2Douglas O. Linder. “Famous trials”. Douglas O. Linder, November 21, 2013 http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm.