Connecticut
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5.9KJohn Hersey Tells the Truth About Hiroshima
After the Aug. 6, 1945 bombing of Hiroshima, the U.S. government censored the truth about the terrible carnage the atomic explosion wrought....
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4.3KSamuel Smedley, Fairfield’s Boy Commander of the Connecticut Navy
Samuel Smedley captured a dozen British vessels during the American Revolution, but the biggest obstacle to greater glory was the stinginess of...
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5.4KDavid Wooster, Revolutionary War Hero, Befriends a Freed Slave
David Wooster is known more as the person who gave New Haven’s Wooster Square neighborhood its name than for his heroism during...
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5.0KArsenic and Old Lace: Not Funny to the Man Who Brought a Serial Killer to Justice
On Jan. 10, 1941, Hartford State’s Attorney Hugh Alcorn attended the opening night of the Broadway play, Arsenic and Old Lace. The...
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7.0KCalorie Counting Gets Its Start in Connecticut
For most of human history food was something you found or grew and then gladly ate to stay alive. There was little...
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6.6K1Not Just From the South: the Great Black Migration to New England
In the early part of the 20th century, entire church congregations from Americus, Ga., moved to Hartford during the great black migration...
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