Connecticut’s early commitment to the patriot cause was indispensable to the Revolution’s success.  Leadership and commitment ...

Catholics in colonial New England kept a low profile, and for long stretches there was effectively no public Catholic life at ...

While telling the story of America's birth in Philadelphia, colonial reenactors braved the historic heat wave gripping the ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago, 13 colonies fought to become the founding states of a new nation. Each of them is intrinsic ...

A survey of the arts in Connecticut in 1776 is fairly easy to conduct. Technically, there weren’t any. In a real world sense ...

As July 4 mark's America's semiquincentennial, Connecticut State Historian Andy Horowitz revisits state residents who helped ...

A new book called "American Crown" reveals Prince William descends from Revolutionary War patriot Nathan Hale and colonial ...

He is the only founder to have signed all four seminal documents that helped create the United States.

U.S. life expectancy has doubled since 1776 thanks to vaccines, antibiotics, sanitation and clean water that reduced ...

​Colonial-style architecture has evolved into an umbrella of designs, all influenced by the original settlers in the U.S.​ ...

The annual filings of financial interest are required of state lawmakers and top-of-the-ticket elected officials.

By Jeff Dumas Perhaps the most iconic sentence in the 250-year history of the United States reads: “We hold these truths to ...