State Historian
August 31, 2024
Connecticut State Historian Andy Horowitz interviews people who are bringing the past into the present. There are more than 1,000 enrolled members of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. The tribe maintains an active program of […]
August 21, 2015
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Last December, in a move that surprised many members of the state’s museum and history communities, the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research […]
May 21, 2015
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In the early 1700s cemeteries in Connecticut’s Puritan towns took on a new and vital role in community social and cultural life […]
January 21, 2015
By Walter Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2014-2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! This image, taken at Bradley Airfield in Windsor Locks on September 9, 1943, gives one pause. It shows happy school children signing a […]
November 28, 2012
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2012 Volume 10 Number 4 Why has “The Land of Steady Habits” endured as a moniker for Connecticut for more than two centuries? One reason is that […]
September 29, 2005
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Spring 2005 Volume 3 Number 2 Subscribe/Buy the Issue In 1973, in a fit of pre-Bicentennial fervor, the state legislature mandated that Connecticut ‘s license plates should […]