The U.S. National Park Service’s Founder, Director, and Champion
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Stephen Tyng…
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The New London Ghost Ship & the Oval Office
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Two Tales of a City
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2021-2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! As Connecticans…
Albert Pope and the Extraordinary Ordinary
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The American Factory Village—Made in Connecticut
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The Energy of Our Great River
by Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In an…
Women’s Letters Kept Family Connected
by Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2020-2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! A private…
Connecticut’s First World War II Hero
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Of the…
Emmeline Pankhurst: Freedom or Death in the Fight for Suffrage
By Walter Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! When Emmeline Pankhurst…
Hogpen Hill Farms: A Place to See
By Walter W Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! One of…
In Honor of the “Nonner”
By Walter Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored, Winter 2019-2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The week the Smithsonian’s…
The Beechers: Connecticut’s Most Accomplished Family?
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2019 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Connecticut has…
The Wade-In of 1964
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2019 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE In 1926…
One Governor, Two Rivers, an Irish Fish, and a Movie Star
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored, Inc. Spring 2019 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE Call this…
Every Single Day . . .
by Walter W. Woodward As state historian, I begin each day excited about building greater…
Historic Holiday Recipes
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The Revolution of 1818
State historian Walter Woodward’s column is expanded to a full story in the Fall 2018…
Two Controversial Connecticut Statues: Standing … At Least for Now
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2018 With all the recent talk…
From Afar, They Still Loved Connecticut
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2017-2018 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In the…
Connecticut, America’s First Research Laboratory
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2017 Thanks to John Winthrop Jr.,…
Sweet Democracy . . . The History of the Connecticut Election Cake
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2017 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! At last…
The German Invasion of Connecticut
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored, Spring 2017 SUBSCRIBE! On June 4, 1921, a…
When the West was North
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored, Inc. Winter 2016-2017 Many people know that Connecticans…
The Hanging of Moses Paul
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored. Fall 2016 On September 2, 1772, thousands gathered…
A Little Town Begets a Big College
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2016 In early 1735 the village…
Darkness and Duty
by Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2016 It had been a terrible…
Our State Seal: The Most Enduring Brand of All
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored, Inc., Winter 2015-2016 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Connecticut’s most…
The Picture Not Taken
By Walter W. Woodward FALL 2015 In our image-saturated world, nothing is missed more than…
The Chips are Down for the Pequot Museum
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Last December,…
Benjamin Collins, Rock Star
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In the…
A Pint-Sized View of War
By Walter Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2014-2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! This image, taken…
Birth Control and Zones of Privacy
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2014 Volume 12 Number 4 Subscribe/Buy…
Henry Green and the Final Underground
By Walter W. Woodward, Summer 2014 Volume 12 Number 3 Almost all Connecticans have at…
A Revolutionary Gamble …Again
By Walter W. Woodward, Spring 2014 Volume 12 Number 2 Recent history has not gone…
A Historian Comes Home
By Walter W. Woodward, Winter 2013 Volume 12 Number 4 This is a story about…
Immigrants All…
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2013 Volume 11 Number 4 Subscribe/Buy…
“Sui Generous”: The Story of a Shepherd and His Flag
By Walter Woodward, Spring 2013 Volume 11 Number 2 For the better part of a century,…
Connecticut’s Slow Steps Towards Emancipation
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2012/2013 Volume 11 Number 1 Subscribe/Buy the…
The Unsteady Meaning of “The Land of Steady Habits”
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2012 Volume 10 Number 4 Why has…
War of 1812–The War Connecticut Hated
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The Map That Wasn’t a Map
By Walter W. Woodward, Spring 2012 Volume 10 Number 2 The key document mapping out…
Discovering the Explorer Hiram Bingham
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The Final Journey of Nathaniel Lyon
By Walter W. Woodward, Spring 2011 Volume 9 Number 2 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Except for…
Where Were You…
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2011 Volume 9 Number 4 Subscribe/Buy…
“Must Read Book” is 160 Years Old
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2011 Volume 9 Number 3 Subscribe/Buy the…
Celebrating Connecticut’s Founding
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2010 Vol 8 # 4 Subscribe/Buy…
Bruce Fraser. The End of a Life. The End of an Era.
By Walter Woodward, State Historian (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2010 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! For…
Nutmeg Adds Spice. But is it Nice?
By Walter W. Woodward ©Connecticut Explored Winter 2007 Volume 6 Number 1 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! State…
Re: Collections: The “Genius of Connecticut”
By Walter Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. WINTER 2006/07 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! A once-fallen angel…
Are We the Constitution State?
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Spring 2005 Volume 3 Number 2 Subscribe/Buy…
What’s a Puritan, and Why Didn’t They Stay in Massachusetts?
By Walter Woodward, Summer 2005 Volume 3 Number 3 How do we in the 21st…