The wealthiest 1 percent of Americans has more money than 90 percent of the U.S. population combined. Lisa Keister '90 and her students are exploring why wealth distribution is this lopsided.
Germany was considered the heartland of witch trials in early-modern Europe: It was home to roughly half of the 100,000 trials held between 1450 and 1750. But witch hunts took place elsewhere in Europe and in the U.S. Here s a sampling of notorious cases: