Nineteen men and women hanged and one pressed to death for heresy. These were the results of the ever-famous Salem witch trials. These shocking facts were found on November 21, 2013 from the website http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projectts/ftrials/salem/salem.htm, dedicated to information about the Salem witchcraft trials1. The topic the site covers is intriguing and the concrete evidence it provides allows visitors to watch it for hours without getting bored. This website is a good source for learning history because it appeals to a wide variety of audiences, provides an assortment of historical documents from different perspectives, and manages to engage and entertain the visitor in an organized way. The website focuses on one central topic: Salem Witch Trials and is aimed at a wide variety of audiences. The Salem Witch Trials were a series of trials held in 1692 in Puritan Massachusetts in which men and women were accused of witchcraft1. The aim of the website is to provide information about the trials, in particular the people involved, the legitimacy of the trials and the resulting hysteria. 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 creator of the website originally built the site for his college students as a learning portal, but it has now been developed to serve a wide variety of people. There are components for law students and also for 6th year students2. The website dedicated to the Salem witch trials provides factual information about the trials and a large audience is able to use the web... middle of paper... also, it provides a tremendous amount of historical information information on the subject reliably and impartially through real documents. Finally, the positive aspects of the website greatly outweigh the negative 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 through the Internet. There is no way to go back in time to witness history, so it is imperative that historians use good sources to learn history online, such as that explored today about the Salem witch trials. Works Cited1 Douglas O. Linder. “Salem Witch 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.