Latino & Puerto Rican History
November 15, 2025
Author Steve Thornton asks “Who really makes history”? In his new book, Radical Connecticut: People’s History in the Constitution State, co-authored by Andy Piascik, guest Steve Thornton tells the stories of everyday people and well-known figures whose work has often been obscured, denigrated, or dismissed. There are narratives of movements, strikes, popular organizations and people in Connecticut who changed the state and the country for the better.
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 […]