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May 15, 2025
The quotation appears in the article “200 Years, Millions of Stories: Connecticut Museum Reaches a Milestone and Focuses on the Future,” by Jamie O’Brien and Andrea Rapacz. “The foundation of authority is laid firstly in […]
March 1, 2025
By Dennis Morgan The satirist and social critic Sinclair Lewis left small-town Minnesota to become a citizen of the world as the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was enormously […]
December 1, 2024
By Ramin Ganeshram For enslaved communities, resistance was necessary to maintain humanity, whether on a large scale like the Haitian Revolution or in small daily occurrences in a cookpot. New England codfish, dried and salted […]
December 1, 2024
The food that kids eat at school has changed a lot over time. In March 1896, schools in Bridgeport, Hartford, and Norwich got lunch counters that sold sandwiches, cocoa, and coffee (“Educational Intelligence,” The Journal […]
November 24, 2024
By David W. Babington In 2013, I was inspired to research the “genealogy” of the Washington Food Market in Washington Depot, Connecticut, tracing the store back to its earliest “ancestor,” Baker & Brinsmade, a […]
September 15, 2024
In this episode, you'll hear about the remarkable life and legacy of the man that Lin-Manuel Miranda called "America's favorite fighting Frenchman," the Marquis de Lafayette.
June 1, 2023
(c) Connecticut Explored, Summer, 2023 By Jason Mancini Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Fort Island in the Great Salt Pond of Block Island, Rhode Island, is an island within an island. That’s where I spent more than […]
November 28, 2022
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August 25, 2022
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The Board and Publisher of Connecticut Explored Inc. thanks all of the individuals and organizations that have contributed to our success over the last 20 years. […]
August 25, 2022
20 for 20: Innovation in Connecticut History (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! To mark our 20th anniversary, the Board and staff of Connecticut Explored decided that instead of looking back (though […]
August 25, 2022
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Fall 2022 Here’s who is on the cover and where to find related stories in Connecticut Explored. Find all stories online or in back issue print editions. Subscribe/Buy the issue! Top row, […]
August 13, 2022
20 for 20: Innovation in Connecticut History To mark our 20th anniversary, Connecticut Explored decided that instead of looking back, we would look forward and explore the future of Connecticut history. We launched an initiative […]
May 9, 2022
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November 27, 2021
By Charles N. Leach (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2021-2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Reverend Noah Porter Jr. (1781 – 1866) was a son of a minister of the First Congregational Church in Farmington, and he […]
November 20, 2021
VOLUME 20/NUMBER 1/Winter 2021-2022 IN THIS ISSUE: In Their Own Words An Aspiring Gold Miner > A Pequot Son > A New Woman Artist > A Fugitive from Slavery > A Self-Described Rogue > A Girl […]