James Otis made taxation without representation a cause of the American Revolution, but when war broke out he had pretty much disappeared...
William Apess was the perfect person to lead the nonviolent Mashpee Revolt of 1833, an uprising against the Massachusetts government. The commonwealth...
You could do worse than look at fall foliage along old military routes in New England. Some of them, originally Indian trails,...
In the early days of the fight for women’s voting rights, Connecticut’s Glastonbury cows got caught in the crossfire. In June of...
In 1905, Mary Rogers faced the hangman’s noose for murdering her husband. There was virtually no doubt of her guilt. But as...
A century ago, Connecticut’s Art Young was a radical political cartoonist. Many of his drawings have as much relevance today as they...