Jun 29, 2021
In this episode, Dr. Leah Glaser and students from her 2021 Public History class at Central Connecticut State University present stories about the state’s witness trees — a project that evolved out of a semester-long class on local and community history. Trees are central characters in the state’s history, myths...
Jan 2, 2020
In our first episode for 2020, state historian Walt Woodward interviews author and historian Tom Shachtman talks about his just released book, The Founding Fortunes: How America's Wealthy Paid for and Profited From America's Revolution. In this fascinating economic history covering the years from the Birth of the...
Jul 16, 2019
In this Gate-leg Table interview
with state historian Walt Woodward, transportation historian
Richard DeLuca takes us on an expert's tour of Connecticut's long
history of charging people to get from here to there. From
turnpikes to bicycle roads, the state highway system to the
parkways and toll roads Connecticut got...
Jun 17, 2019
This summer the Connecticut Historical Society is hosting an exhibition called Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow. It’s a traveling show that originated at the New-York Historical Society. The exhibition explores the struggle for full citizenship and racial equality that unfolded after the Civil...
Apr 15, 2018
- America's First Law School, Sarah Pierce's Academy, & The Way We Mourned
It was home to America’s first law school and to one of the first schools in which a woman could get a real education. Litchfield today is one of Connecticut’s prettiest towns. Join state historian Walt Woodward on a field trip to the...