State Historian
May 17, 2022
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Stephen Tyng Mather was born and educated in California, but he considered the ancestral 1778 Mather homestead in Darien his true home. […]
February 23, 2022
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! How many know about Connecticut’s connection to the president’s desk in the Oval Office—and the preservation and craftsmanship stories it embodies? The […]
November 20, 2021
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2021-2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! As Connecticans in the 1800s joined the throngs of pioneers seeking a better life in the American West, they eagerly sought first-hand […]
August 16, 2021
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! One of the characteristics that defined the Victorian era was its many advances in invention and technology. One of the most significant […]
May 19, 2021
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In the late 18th and early 19th centuries a perfect storm of problems caused Connecticut to pivot away from its agricultural and […]
February 12, 2021
by Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In an issue whose theme is “Environmental History,” no subject is more fitting than New England’s “Great River,” the Connecticut River, and […]
November 23, 2020
by Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2020-2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! A private collection of family letters exchanged between Mary and Harriet Miller of Middlefield, Connecticut and female relatives and friends who emigrated […]
August 19, 2020
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Of the 17 Connecticans among the 2,403 people who died at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, only 12 served on U.S. […]
May 23, 2020
By Walter Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! When Emmeline Pankhurst arrived in Hartford in late November 1913, she was one of the most famous—and infamous—women in the world. As founder […]
February 27, 2020
By Walter W Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! One of Connecticut’s most eye-opening places is not only off the beaten path, it is off limits to most of us most […]
November 25, 2019
By Walter Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored, Winter 2019-2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The week the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian opened in 2004, construction workers uncovered a large number of 17th-century human remains on […]
August 26, 2019
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2019 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Connecticut has long produced families of great ability whose accomplishments span generations. Perhaps no family stands out in this regard more than […]
June 26, 2019
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2019 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE In 1926 a group of eastern Connecticut investors, seeking to capitalize on the state’s expanding highway system and growth in leisure-time activities, […]
March 6, 2019
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored, Inc. Spring 2019 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE Call this a fish story. It’s about two rivers, one governor, an Irish fish, and a Hollywood legend. It took place a […]
November 26, 2018
by Walter W. Woodward As state historian, I begin each day excited about building greater awareness for the history of our state. Helping more people better appreciate all the important, curious, fun, unique, profound, strange, […]