Creating Connecticut
Critical Moments That Shaped a Great State
Erschienen am 1. Mai 2020
304 Seiten
978-1-4930-4703-1 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Connecticut State Historian Walter Woodward helps us understand how people and events in Connecticut's past played crucial roles in forming the culture and character of Connecticut today. Woodward, a gifted story-teller, brings the history we thought we knew to life in new ways, from the nearly forgotten early presence of the Dutch, to the time when Connecticut was New England's fiercest prosecutor of witches, the decades when Connecticans were rapidly leaving the state, and the years when Irish immigrants were hurrying into it. Whether it's his investigation into the unusually rough justice meted out to Revolutionary War hero Nathan Hale, or a peek into Mark Twain's smoking habits, Creating Connecticut will leave you thinking about our state's past--and its future--in a whole new way.
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Person
Walt Woodward is the State Historian of Connecticut and an Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. He is the narrator and producer of Today in Connecticut History (with CT Humanities) and Grating the Nutmeg: The Podcast of Connecticut History (with Connecticut Explored magazine). He also writes the "From the State Historian" column in Connecticut Explored. A widely sought after public speaker and historian, he lives in Columbia, CT.
Inhalt
- Intro
- Introduction
- Restless Beginnings
- What's a Puritan, and Why Didn't They Stay in Massachusetts?
- Wethersfield's War: Hunger, Rumor, and the Cost of Battles Not Fought
- Controversial Statues Standing . . . At Least For Now
- Connecticut: New England's Fiercest Witch Hunter
- Benjamin Collins, Rock Star
- Eleazar Wheelock, The Great Awakening, Samson Occom, and Moor's Indian Charity School
- The Hanging of Moses Paul
- Rough Justice for Nathan Hale
- The Map that Wasn't a Map
- Leaving Connecticut, Shaping America
- From Afar . . . They Still Loved Connecticut
- Rooted in Place: The Story of Lyman Orchards
- Connecticut's Slow Walk Toward Emancipation
- The Irish in Connecticut
- Immigrants All
- Mark Twain and the Historic House Problem
- Henry Greene and the Final Underground
- Connecticut's Three Hundredth-A Birthday to Remember
- Sweet Democracy-The History of the Connecticut Election Cake
- Governor John N. Dempsey, Son of Cahir
- Why is Connecticut Called the Nutmeg State?
- What Makes Connecticut, Connecticut?
- A Historian Comes Home
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
