Best of Walter Woodward
May 19, 2021
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In the late 18th and early 19th centuries a perfect storm of problems caused Connecticut to pivot away from its agricultural and […]
February 27, 2017
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. WINTER 16/17 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Many people know that Connecticans became pioneers of manifest destiny through their late-18th-into-early-19th-century emigrations west to Pennsylvania’s Wyoming Valley and Ohio’s Western […]
November 28, 2016
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored, Inc. Winter 2016-2017 Many people know that Connecticans became pioneers of manifest destiny through their late-18th-into-early-19th-century emigrations west to Pennsylvania’s Wyoming Valley and Ohio’s Western Reserve. Fewer are […]
September 6, 2016
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored. Fall 2016 On September 2, 1772, thousands gathered in New Haven’s First Congregational Church to watch a rare encounter between two Native Americans. One represented the stereotype many […]
February 26, 2016
by Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2016 It had been a terrible winter. Jedediah Strong, clerk of the Connecticut General Assembly, called it “the severest hard winter within the memory of […]
February 2, 2016
This spring, Americans will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I. To whet your appetite for some of the surprising stories ahead, state historian Walt Woodward retells the cautionary tale of an […]
September 29, 2015
By Walter W. Woodward FALL 2015 In our image-saturated world, nothing is missed more than the picture not taken. Who among us has not regretted—on many occasions—that a particular moment, event, or place wasn’t captured […]
April 1, 2014
By Walter W. Woodward, Spring 2014 Volume 12 Number 2 Recent history has not gone easy on Connecticut. The state whose innovation and manufacturing ingenuity made it a leader in the industrial revolution, has, in […]
December 1, 2013
By Walter W. Woodward, Winter 2013 Volume 12 Number 4 This is a story about a house. Not just any house, but a house with long, deep roots—roots that wind through time, cross through […]
June 6, 2011
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2011 Volume 9 Number 3 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! As a professional historian—not to mention the state historian of Connecticut—one might expect that I would have read Harriet […]
June 17, 2010
By Walter Woodward, State Historian (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2010 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! For the last 30 years, virtually every history program of substance produced in Connecticut could have carried the credit line, “Brought […]
January 29, 2008
By
Walter
W.
Woodward ©Connecticut
Explored Winter 2007 Volume 6 Number 1 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! State
historian
Walt
Woodward
tells
us
the
story
behind
the
state’s
association
with
nutmeg
and
sheds some
light
on
an
unusual […]