Connecticut at War

The Hindenburg Flies Over Bridgeport
By Carolyn Ivanoff (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In the early…

Photographing Wartime Connecticut
By Mary M. Donohue and Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2022 Subscribe/Buy…

Bridgeport’s Monumental Bronze Company
By Carolyn Ivanoff (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The great age…

Josiah Atkins: “Ye Enemy Are Upon Us”
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How Connecticut Paid Its Civil War Bills
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Remembering the Pequot War in Fairfield
By Elizabeth Rose (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2014/2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The Pequot War…

Gideon Welles: A Connecticut Yankee in Lincoln’s Cabinet
By J. Ronald Spencer (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2014 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! READ AS…

America’s First Professional Cooking School—In New Haven, No Less!
By Susan Chandler (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2007 Every profession has its leadership institution.…

Marching With Henry Clay Work
By Dean Nelson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Mid evening on a…

New Discoveries at Battle Site Essex
By Jerry Roberts (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2014 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! READ AS A…

From Cold War to Cold Storage
By John Ramsey (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2014 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In the early…

The True Story of Captain Sluman and Sarah Gray
By Alicia Wayland (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2013 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! On March 22,…
A Quaker Firebrand Helps Swing an Election
By Joseph Duffy (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Aug/Sep/Oct 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! At 7:30 p.m.…

The Brass City Manufactures for Victory
By Raechel Guest (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2007 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Waterbury takes a…

Civil Defense in the Cold War
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. 2003 Nov/Dec/Jan 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The early Cold War era…

Parallel Lives: Segregated Connecticut in World War I
By Mark H. Jones (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. 2003 Nov/Dec/Jan 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! During…

Soldiers’ Field in Hartford
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. 2003 Nov/Dec/Jan 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! On Armistice Day (November 11)…
Letters from the American Revolution
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. 2003 Nov/Dec/Jan 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The Revolutionary War, like any…

Spanish-American War: Louis F. Middlebrook’s Letter from a Quarantine Camp
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. 2003 Nov/Dec/Jan 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The following abridged letter was…

World War II: A Sweet Reminder of Home
By Arthur J. Kiely Jr. (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. 2003 Nov/Dec/Jan 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue!…

“Whistling Death”: The Vought Corsair
By Jack Connors (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. 2003 Nov/Dec/Jan 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Connecticut has…

Pratt & Whitney: Dependable Engines Prepare for War
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! When Frederick…

Site Lines: Monument to Connecticut’s Borinqueneers
By W. Phillips Barlow (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In 1899,…

Obey Your Air Raid Warden
By Ben Gammell (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Three recent acquisitions…

A Sound They’ll Never Forget
By Emily Clark (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! As a…

Sigrid Schultz: The Dragon From Westport
By Ramin Ganeshram, Nicole Carpenter, and Sara Krasne (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2020 Subscribe/Buy…

Glider Pilot Rollin Fowler’s Daring Escape
By Gregg Mangan (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Rollin Booth Fowler…

A Jewish Child’s Experience of War
By Leon Chameides (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! This year marks…

The Kid in Upper 4
By Laura Smith (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! What is a…

Thomas Dodd and the Nuremberg Trials
All images courtesy of Archives & Special Collections, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of…

Connecticut’s Civil War Treasure Troves
By William Hosley (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2011 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! For a little…

Re: collections: Connecticut’s Civil War Battle Flags
By Gerry Caughman (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2011 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Flags have always…

Civil War: Soldier’s Heart
By Michael Sturges (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2011 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In 1891 a…

Civil War: Memorials to a Nation Preserved
By Matthew Warshauer and Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2011 Subscribe/Buy the Issue!…

World War I: The “Cave Dweller’s Life”
by Christine Pittsley (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2020-2021 “This is a hell of a…

Site Lines: Silas Deane House
By Linda Pagliuco (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2011/2012 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! When British General…

The Trumbull Dynasty
By Elizabeth Pratt Fox and Alicia Wayland (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2010 Subscribe/Buy the…

Kids in World War II: The Children’s Salvage Army
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2020 World War II began when Germany, Japan, and Italy…

Fall 2020: Connecticut Veterans Tell Their Stories
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FALL 2020 – 75th Anniversary of World War II
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“The Rockets’ Red Glare:” Connecticut and the War of 1812
By Fred Calabretta and Edward Baker (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2012 Subscribe/Buy the Issue!…

Connecticut’s First World War II Hero
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Of the…

Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of World War II
By Elizabeth Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! We salute our…

Yale’s Chaplain Takes on the Vietnam War
By Warren Goldstein (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2014-2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! READ AS A…

Connecticut in the Civil War
Connecticut in the Civil War (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. In the mid-1800s, relations between the…

Civil War: Witness to Gettysburg Horatio Dana Chapman
Witness to Gettysburg: Horatio Dana Chapman (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. 2003 Nov/Dec/Jan 2004/ Vol 2,…

Civil War: Conflict in Litchfield
The Peace Movement in Litchfield By Julie Frey Leone (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2011…

German POWs at Bradley Field
All photos from the Hartford Times Collection, Hartford History Center, Hartford Public Library (c) Connecticut…

Connecticut’s Own Rosie the Riveter
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“Howdy Men…” Bob Steele in World War II
By Bob Steele (c) CT Explored Inc. 2003 Nov/Dec/Jan 2004 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE! September 24,…

Pulling Together at Home in World War II
By Thomas J. Gworek (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2010 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Born in…

The Three Lives of Fort Trumbull
By Johnna Kaplan (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2019 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The east coast…

Justus Riley and Justice for “Patty”
By Sandra P. Ulbrich (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2019 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The Connecticut…

Benedict Arnold and the Battle of Ridgefield
By Nathaniel Philbrick (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2017-2018 From VALIANT AMBITION: George Washington, Benedict…

Site Lines: Connecticut’s World War I Memorials
By Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2017 Subscribe/Buy the Issue When most…

Revolutionary War: Fairfield Set Ablaze
By Adrienne E. Saint-Pierre and Walter D. Matis (c) Connecticut Explored, Spring 2009 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE…
Tuskegee Airman: “I Wanted to Fly.”
By Eileen Hurst (c) Connecticut Explored, Fall 2011 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Connie Nappier vividly recalls…
Mapping Rochambeau’s March Across Connecticut
By Robert Selig (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2012 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In 1780, France…

America’s Tallest Ship
by Tido H. Holtkamp (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. FALL 2011 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! This year the…
Saddles Fit for a Shah
by Patrick Skahill (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. WINTER 2010/11 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In 1958, a…

Pulling Together, At War
By Kjell Tollefsen, introduction by Jordyn A. Sims (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2010 Subscribe/Buy…

Spring 2017: 100th Anniversary of World War I, Part II
Spring 2017 VOLUME 15/NUMBER 2 This issue has been recorded by CrisRadio. Listen here. SUBSCRIBE…

Site Lines: Connecticut’s State Ship
by Karin Peterson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2014 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! READ AS A…

Fame and Infamy for the Hulls of Derby
by Carolyn Ivanoff (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2012 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The War…

The Civil War Comes to Town: Madison Meets the Call for Troops
By Paulette Clark Kaufmann (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2011 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! On September…

Connecticut’s Black Civil War Regiment
By Charles (Ben) Hawley (c) Connecticut Explored, Inc. Spring 2011 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! For the…

Civil War: Heroes of the Home Front
By Kathleen Maher (c) Connecticut Explored, Inc. Spring 2011 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In his pioneering…

Civil War: Connecticut Arms the Union
By Dean E. Nelson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2011 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! A year…

Windsor Locks: Bradley International Airport
By Jerry Roberts (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2016 SUBSCRIBE/Buy the Issue! Connecticut is well…

Connecticut’s Response to the Emancipation Proclamation
By Matthew Warshauer (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. WINTER 2012/2013 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! On January 1,…

Nothing But Freedom
By Wm. Frank Mitchell (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2012-2013 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! All images…

Doctoring on the Field of Battle
By Janice Mathews (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2007 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In 1904 Dr.…

Stamping Out the Reds: The Palmer Raids in Connecticut
by Jeffrey J. White (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. FALL 2005 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! It was…

Glimpses of Lincoln’s Brilliance
by Eugene Leach (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. FALL 2005 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Abraham Lincoln made…

Civil War–Fighting For Freedom: Joseph O. Cross
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. 2003 Nov/Dec/Jan 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Joseph O. Cross of Griswold…

New Britain Manufactures For the War Effort
by Lois L.Blomstrann (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. 2003 Nov/Dec/Jan 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! By the time…

If you don’t need it, DON’T BUY IT!
by Amber Degn (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. 2003 Nov/Dec/Jan 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! When asked…

A War Contested
A photo essay coordinated by Nancy Albert, Mark Jones, Janice Matthews, and the Connecticut Explored editorial…
Fairfield Celebrates its 375th
By Elizabeth Rose (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2014 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! How does one…

Greenwich Women Face the Great War
By Kathleen Eagen Johnson (c) Connecticut Explored, Winter 2014-2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Throughout American history,…
When Books Became Enemy Propaganda
By Mark H. Jones (c) Connecticut Explored, Fall 2014 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! President Woodrow Wilson’s…

Restoring Hartford’s Lost World War I Memorial
By Lynn Ferrari and Greg Secord (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue!…

Join the Brave Throng
by Jessica Jenkins (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. WINTER 2014/15 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! With the outbreak…

New Haven’s Monument Man
By Laura A. Macaluso (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. WINTER 2014/15 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! “In wartime,…

Civil War: Andersonville Diary of Joseph Flower Jr.
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. 2003 Nov/Dec/Jan 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The following are excerpts…

Exploring and Uncovering the Pequot War
By Kevin McBride and Laurie Pasteryak Lamarre (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. FALL 2013 Subscribe/Buy the…

Connecticut’s Naval Contributions to the Civil War
By William Peterson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2011 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! “Back! Back on…

Benedict Arnold Turns and Burns New London
By Edward Baker (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. FALL 2006 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! September 6, 1781…

Revolutionary War: The “Conference” State
By Ann Harrison and Mary Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. FALL 2005 Subscribe/Buy the Issue!…

Wartime Relocation Brings Japanese Americans East
By Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2013 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! On December…

re: Collections: Stonington’s Star-Spangled Banner
By Susan J. Jerome (c) Connecticut Explored inc. Summer 2012 Subscribe!/Buy the Issue On the…

Site Lines: Fort Decatur
By Daniel Forrest (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2012 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The prominence overlooking…

War of 1812: The Mysterious Bluelights
By Steven Slosberg (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2012 Subscribe/Buy the Issue In January 1814,…

War of 1812: The British Raid on Essex
By Jerry Roberts (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2012 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! On a cold…

War of 1812: Attack on Stonington
By Nancy Steenburg (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2012 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Stonington Point,…

A Pint-Sized View of War
By Walter Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2014-2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! This image, taken…

WWI’s Impact on Connecticut
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored, Winter 2014/2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! “Knowledge Wins!” proclaims…

Winter 2014/2015 VOLUME 13/NUMBER 1
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State Archaeologist on 30 Years of Great Finds
(c) Connecticut Explored, Summer 2014 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! By Nicholas F. Bellantoni READ AS A…
War of 1812–The War Connecticut Hated
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2012 Volume 10 Number 3 Subscribe/Buy…

War of 1812: Was This Our Finest Hour?
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2012 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Anniversaries provide…
What About Connecticut in the Civil War?
By Matthew Warshauer (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2011 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! One might not…
On the Home Front
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. 2003 Nov/Dec/Jan 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Last…

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