Summer 2024
May 31, 2024
VOLUME 22/NUMBER 3/SUMMER 2024 (c) Connecticut Explored By Matthew Warshauer Connecticut’s Civil War monuments call to me. On a given day, a drive in just about any part of the state brings me […]
May 31, 2024
VOLUME 22/NUMBER 3/SUMMER 2024 (c) Connecticut Explored By Mitchel Ray In his memoir, A Brief History of the Pequot War: Especially of the Memorable Taking of Their Fort at Mistick in Connecticut in […]
May 31, 2024
VOLUME 22/NUMBER 3/SUMMER 2024 (c) Connecticut Explored Publisher’s note: What follows are the testimonies of Dr. Walter W. Woodward, then Connecticut state historian, and Rodney Butler, chair of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, […]
May 31, 2024
VOLUME 22/NUMBER 3/SUMMER 2024 (c) Connecticut Explored By Joshua David Carter Many, including the descendants of those who participated on both sides of the Pequot War, have deliberated why monuments to John Mason, […]
May 31, 2024
VOLUME 22/NUMBER 3/SUMMER 2024 (c) Connecticut Explored By Christina Volpe In 1814, the newly minted Reverend Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet met Alice Cogswell, the deaf daughter of his family’s neighbor, Dr. Mason Cogswell. Inspired […]
May 31, 2024
VOLUME 22/NUMBER 3/SUMMER 2024 (c) Connecticut Explored By Dana Barcellos-Allen The calls coming in on the rotary phones of the fledgling Connecticut Humanities Council were not what the staff were expecting—at all. “Can […]
May 31, 2024
VOLUME 22/NUMBER 3/SUMMER 2024 (c) Connecticut Explored Welcome to the Connecticut Explored Summer Passport Program! Ken’s letter inspired us to create a summer contest. We have adapted his instructions. Here’s how the program […]
May 31, 2024
VOLUME 22/NUMBER 3/SUMMER 2024 (c) Connecticut Explored By Kathy Hermes We welcome Dr. Matthew Warshauer of Central Connecticut State University as our guest editor for our Summer 2024 issue. He solicited and curated […]
May 31, 2024
VOLUME 22/NUMBER 3/SUMMER 2024 (c) Connecticut Explored Thank you very much for your kind and gracious correction of the information on the [Connecticut Archives Month] poster [Fall 2023 issue] relating to Mary Hall. […]
May 31, 2024
VOLUME 22/NUMBER 3/SUMMER 2024 Connecticut Explored Publisher’s note: What follows are the testimonies of Dr. Walter W. Woodward, then Connecticut state historian, and Rodney Butler, chair of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, before […]
May 31, 2024
VOLUME 22/NUMBER 3/SUMMER 2024 Connecticut Explored By Marie McDaniel A statue is one way to tell a story. Like books, statues have authors and arguments that reflect the time and place of their […]
May 31, 2024
VOLUME 22/NUMBER 3/SUMMER 2024 (c) Connecticut Explored By Matthew Warshauer In the fall of 2022, I had the wonderful opportunity to teach a course at Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) titled Stories in […]
May 31, 2024
VOLUME 22/NUMBER 3/SUMMER 2024 Connecticut Explored By Kristen Levithan The October 9, 1908, edition of The Hartford Courant was rapturous in its description of “Bridge Week,” a three-day celebration that accompanied the dedication […]
May 31, 2024
Charly Palmer, A Man, 2006, acrylic on wood with mixed media. Collection of The Amistad Center for Art & Culture Art Celebrates Civil Rights Movement In January, the United States Postal Service released Charly […]
May 31, 2024
VOLUME 22/NUMBER 3/SUMMER 2024 Connecticut Explored By Julie Thompson In the fall of 2019, there were rumblings of a deadly virus that was making its way across the world. Then, March 2020 arrived, […]