(c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Spring 2023 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! This issue of Connecticut Explored is all about the power of place. Writers tell the stories of places that have shaped the history of our state. Connecticut […]
By Pablo Delano (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Spring 2023 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In his 1898 book Uncle Sam’s Island Possessions, Mr. Trumbull White –who is characterized on the title page as a “historian, war correspondent and […]
By Jack Dougherty (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Spring 2023 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! This article is adapted from Dougherty’s game-changing book On The Line: How Schooling, Housing, and Civil Rights Shaped Hartford and its Suburbs, an open-access […]
By Melissa Houston (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Spring 2023 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In 2018 Keeler Tavern Museum & History Center offered the play Sisters as a public performance and a school program. The public was able […]
By Stephen W. Silliman and Brenda Geer (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Spring 2023 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The summer of 2003 marked the 320-year anniversary of the Eastern Pequot’s fighting for and receiving their Lantern Hill Reservation […]
By Sarah Sportman and Maisa Tisdale (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Spring 2023 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The Mary and Eliza Freeman Houses in Bridgeport are among Connecticut’s most important historic sites for their connections to African American […]
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Spring 2023 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Vuong’s 2019 On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press, 2019) was selected as a Game Changer for its rich portrayal […]