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Cover art for the book What Happened to Paula, featuring a rural autumn scene.

Added on October 5, 2021 Interview

“Who Cares?”: A Conversation on Murder and Women with Katherine Dykstra

Katherine Dykstra’s What Happened to Paula: On the Death of an American Girl is much more than a book about […]

Woodcut from A Wonder of Wonders depicting the hanging of Anne Greene, which she survived. On the left side of the image are two people lying in a bed, with a speech bubble that says BEHOLD GODS PROVIDENCE. On the right is the hanging woman, by rope from a gallow. A woman is kneeling below her praying. A man pokes her with the butte of a rifle. A coffin waits open in the bottom left

Added on August 6, 2020 The Deathbed

News from the Dead

On December 14, 1650, 22-year old Anne Greene was led up the gallows in Oxford. She had been charged with […]

Added on February 26, 2019 Historical essay

Femininity and Legitimacy: Policing Women and “Witches” in Post-Apartheid South Africa

One night in the late spring of 2008, in the South African town of Mondlo, an assembly of neighbors brought […]