Samuel Smedley captured a dozen British vessels during the American Revolution, but the biggest obstacle to greater glory was the stinginess of...
David Wooster is known more as the person who gave New Haven’s Wooster Square neighborhood its name than for his heroism during...
On Jan. 10, 1941, Hartford State’s Attorney Hugh Alcorn attended the opening night of the Broadway play, Arsenic and Old Lace. The...
For most of human history food was something you found or grew and then gladly ate to stay alive. There was little...
In the early part of the 20th century, entire church congregations from Americus, Ga., moved to Hartford during the great black migration...
John William Sterling was a corporate lawyer during the Gilded Age, a conservative, upper-class businessman, the kind of man the Kinks describe...