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Sep 22, 2025
“Awful carnage” was the Hartford Courant’s description of the Battle of Antietam, fought between Union and Confederate forces — led by...
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Sep 8, 2025
The living memory of World War II is passing away. In April, the oldest known survivor of Pearl Harbor died at 106 years old. A few weeks ago, a 102-year old...
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Aug 4, 2025
How conferences in Connecticut, between George Washington and Rochambeau, led to the end of the American Revolution.
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Jun 18, 2025
Napoleon Bonaparte’s fall from grace was complete. On Oct. 15, 1815, after nearly ten weeks at sea on the HMS Northumberland, the former French emperor arrived as a political pri
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Jun 11, 2025
During WWII, Yale professor Deane Keller protected and recovered priceless European artwork from the Nazis.
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Apr 18, 2025
It was a Good Friday that shocked America.
One hundred and sixty years ago, on April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathizer...
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Mar 14, 2025
Connecticut has had a leading role in America’s constitutional history.
It may have had the first written constitution, hence its nickname, “The...
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Feb 12, 2025
On Feb. 27, 1860, Abraham Lincoln rose to speak before a crowd of 1,500 — who trekked through the snow — at The Cooper Union, a newly established center for […]
Sep 8, 2025The living memory of World War II is passing away. In April, the oldest known survivor of Pearl Harbor died at 106 years old. A few weeks ago, a 102-year old...
Aug 4, 2025How conferences in Connecticut, between George Washington and Rochambeau, led to the end of the American Revolution.
Mar 14, 2025Connecticut has had a leading role in America’s constitutional history. It may have had the first written constitution, hence its nickname, “The...
Feb 12, 2025On Feb. 27, 1860, Abraham Lincoln rose to speak before a crowd of 1,500 — who trekked through the snow — at The Cooper Union, a newly established center for […]