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The Case of the Piglet’s Paternity
In the middle of the seventeenth century, judges in the short-lived New Haven Colony presided over a remarkable series of trials ranging from murder and bestiality, to drunken …
Nothing Special
A memoir about disability and siblinghood that is honest and hilarious.Nothing Special is a disarming tale of two sisters growing up in the 1970s in suburban Connecticut. Older …
Homegrown Terror
On September 6, 1781, Connecticut native Benedict Arnold and a force of 1,600 British soldiers and loyalists took Fort Griswold and burnt New London to the ground. The brutality of …
The Connecticut Prison Association and the Search for Reformatory Justice
The Connecticut Prison Association and the Search for Reformatory Justice looks at the role the Connecticut Prison Association played in the formation of the state’s criminal …
The Logbooks
In 1757, a sailing ship owned by an affluent Connecticut merchant sailed from New London to the tiny island of Bence in Sierra Leone, West Africa, to take on fresh water and …
Prudence Crandall’s Legacy
Prudence Crandall was a schoolteacher who fought to integrate her school in Canterbury, Connecticut, and educate black women in the early nineteenth century. When Crandall accepted …
The Long Journeys Home
Henry ‘Opukaha‘ia (ca. 1792–1818), Native Hawaiian, and Itankusun Wanbli (ca. 1879–1900), Oglala Lakota, lived almost a century apart. Yet the cultural circumstances that led them …
Stone Breaker
Percival probed the volcanic origins of rock via geology and the seething nature of his psyche via poetry.Stone Breaker is an in-depth, accessible biography of a true American …
The Traprock Landscapes of New England
Stunning photography and fact-filled text reveal new perspectives on southern New England's most unique natural region. A picturesque journey through the traprock highlands from …