From farming to shipbuilding — Connecticut played an essential role in the war effort during the American Revolution. It was even nicknamed the “Provisions State” for its contributions to ...

Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns once called the Civil War "the most important event in American history," because ...

THERE YOU GO. STILL AHEAD A native son of Connecticut, General Benedict Arnold switched allegiance to the British crown in the middle of the American Revolution. His British troops burned New ...

Connecticut has a deep history with the Revolutionary War. Plenty of tales detail battles and bloodshed between colonial men and their British enemies, but what about the women? WSHU’s Molly ...

Stream Connecticut News for ... revolution itself was initially less a revolution than a demand for better terms. Woody Holton, a professor of early American history at the University of South ...

The British Raid In Connecticut That Prompted George Washington ... That spirit embodies the American Revolution, which makes this letter quite special.” Not only that, Raab continued, but ...

Much about the American Revolution has been forgotten or distorted ... and Fairfield and Norwalk in Connecticut. Britain’s German allies, the Hessians, were accused of many rapes in central ...

Kimberly Belflower, the writer of the Tony-nominated play “John Proctor Is the Villain,” starring Sadie Sink, admires doll houses and pays tribute to a childhood hero. By the canal, I felt an ...

The New Connecticut Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution celebrated its 125th anniversary Nov. 5 at the Lake County History Center in Painesville Township.