Women’s History
August 31, 2024
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June 17, 2016
by Jennifer LaRue SPRING 2006 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Two centuries before Jacques Pepin became Connecticut’s most famous chef, Amelia Simmons made culinary history by publishing, in Hartford, what is now widely regarded as the first American […]
April 29, 2016
By Chris Pagliuco © Connecticut Explored Winter 2007/08 Connecticut’s 17th-century witch trials have long been overshadowed by the more numerous and better publicized proceedings in Salem, Massachusetts. But Connecticut’s were among the first such trials in New […]
April 7, 2016
By Christopher A. Griffin and Henry S. Cohn (c) Connecticut Explored, Spring 2016 Frank B. Brandegee of New London served in the United States Senate from 1905 until his suicide in 1924. During […]
December 18, 2015
By Jennifer LaRue (c) Connecticut Explored, Fall 2015 In the late 19th century, even as great classical music was being composed in Europe and the United States and parlor music was popular in American homes, […]
August 27, 2014
By William Hosley (c) Connecticut Explored. Fall 2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! One of the irrepressible joys of doing local history—of working the content underfoot in a place like Connecticut—are the occasions on which you […]