As implausible as Marilyn Monroe in Connecticut may seem today, it’s where she thought her most cherished dream would come true. When...
In 1916, a 72-year-old sea captain named Benjamin Cleveland decided to take a 75-year-old wooden vessel on one last voyage. So Cleveland,...
Ben Franklin spent most of the American Revolution in Paris, negotiating an alliance with the French. But he had a side hustle:...
During the Gilded Age, hundreds of thousands of young women worked long hours for low pay in sweat shops and factories. Some...
In the basement of an old Congregational church on New Haven Green lies a small city of the dead. One hundred thirty...