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March 1, 2024
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September 1, 2023
By Linda Hocking The first independent school of law in America was founded in Litchfield, Connecticut, by Long Island native Tapping Reeve. Having completed his education at Princeton in 1774, Reeve went to Hartford to […]
February 10, 2017
by Johnna Kaplan FALL 2016 In 2015, when Connecticut abolished the death penalty—embedded in its laws since the 17th century—University of Connecticut history professor Lawrence Goodheart’s The Solemn Sentence of Death: Capital Punishment in […]
December 1, 2016
By Ethan Manis (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2016 SUBSCRIBE! In 1949, 19-year-old William Daniels was working at United Novelty Company, a manufacturing company in Biloxi, Mississippi. In that era, gasoline was used routinely as […]
April 29, 2016
By Chris Pagliuco © Connecticut Explored Winter 2007/08 Connecticut’s 17th-century witch trials have long been overshadowed by the more numerous and better publicized proceedings in Salem, Massachusetts. But Connecticut’s were among the first such trials in New […]
April 7, 2016
By Christopher A. Griffin and Henry S. Cohn (c) Connecticut Explored, Spring 2016 Frank B. Brandegee of New London served in the United States Senate from 1905 until his suicide in 1924. During […]
March 31, 2016
by Lary Bloom (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2007 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Among the tender memories of youth: My father atop a ladder, examining the remote winesaps of a tall tree, choosing only the flawless specimens […]
March 2, 2016
By Lawrence J. DeNardis (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2014 Beginning with the Fundamental Orders of 1639, Connecticut never lost or surrendered her charter of liberties. A state constitutional revision in 1818 made some substantive […]
February 26, 2016
By Dave Corrigan (c) Connecticut Explored, Spring 2016 SUBSCRIBE! With the signing of the state budget passed by the Connecticut General Assembly in the early morning hours of August 22, 1991, Gov. Lowell Weicker overturned […]
February 26, 2016
by Elizabeth Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Spring 2016 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In this presidential election year, we decided to focus our spring issue on stories about voting rights and civic engagement. These stories remind […]
December 19, 2015
By Wm. Frank Mitchell (c) Connecticut Explored, Fall 2015 The Knights of Columbus, a national fraternal mutual aid organization, was founded in New Haven in 1882 to provide insurance protection for members’ families and to […]