When he was 12 years old, sometime around 1809, Chauncey Jerome overheard two old men ridiculing clockmaker Eli Terry. Terry had started...
The Great White Hurricane of 1888 struck on the night of March 11 and continued furiously for two days, dumping as much...
More than 200 years after his death, a Waterbury, Conn., slave received a proper burial. His name is Fortune, and his journey...
On one summer day in 1915, thousands of women walked off the job in Bridgeport, Conn., demanding the eight hour day and...