Latino & Puerto Rican History
June 1, 2023
(c) Connecticut Explored, Summer, 2023 By Karen Ali Subscribe/Buy the Issue! (c) Summer 2023 In 1955 residents of Puerto Rico began coming to Windham looking for a better way of life. Word started spreading of […]
August 26, 2022
By Jasmin Agosto and Nataliya Braginsky (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Fall 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! From Hartford to New Haven, in public libraries and public schools, with elders and teens, we are working to redefine […]
July 30, 2021
Jack Delano, father of Trinity College professor and artist Pablo Delano, was a photographer for the federal government’s Farm Security Administration in the 1940s. A Russian Jew born in an area that is now part […]
May 19, 2021
By Pablo Delano (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! All images © Pablo Delano Even before moving to the area in 1996 to start my new job at Trinity College, I had […]
January 17, 2021
By Christopher Baker (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. May/Jun/Jul 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The start of Gwen Reed’s acting career is like something out of a Hollywood scenario. Raised in Connecticut’s tobacco fields, she worked as […]
December 28, 2020
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. 2003 Nov/Dec/Jan 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The following abridged letter was written by Ensign Louis F. Middlebrook of the Second Division, Connecticut Naval Militia from the U.S.S. Jason at the close […]
December 19, 2018
By Jasmin Agosto (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2018-2019 Subscribe/Buy the Issue Hip hop is a cultural movement initiated by African American, West Indian, and Latino youth in the early 1970s in the South Bronx, […]
November 2, 2018
By Steve Thornton (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2018 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! For generations sports writers and novelists have waxed philosophical about how baseball reflects the American spirit and sense of fair play. But our […]
October 5, 2016
By Bruce M. Stave (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Upon receiving the National Book Award Medal in 1997 the popular oral historian Studs Terkel asked, “When the Chinese Wall was built […]
August 15, 2016
By José E. Cruz (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2003 The closest thing to a Hollywood walk of fame Hartford has is the entrance to the city’s public library. As patrons approach the library’s main […]
February 26, 2016
by Ruth Glasser (c) Connecticut Explored, Fall 2002 SUBCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE “If there’s a harvest, you’ve got Puerto Ricans working there,” observes Néstor Morales. Morales knows what he’s talking about-he first came to Connecticut from his native […]
September 11, 2015
By Dave Corrigan (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2013 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! On September 2, 1802 Joel Root (1770- 1847) sailed out of New Haven Harbor on board the brig Huron in pursuit of a […]
September 1, 2013
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2013 Volume 11 Number 4 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! All Connecticans, from the first indigenous settler to the state’s most recent arrival, are immigrants or the descendants […]
December 7, 2011
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2011/2012 Volume 10 Number 1 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Of all the Connecticans who have left their mark in distant places, perhaps none made a more lasting—or […]