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Connecticut Yankee, Wilbur Cross
Episode 81
Say the name Wilbur Cross and most Connecticans think of a parkway. Wilbur Cross the man, however, was a Connectican of extraordinary accomplis…
6 years, 6 months ago
Novelist Ann Petry and Exploring the Family Tree
Season 2 Episode 80
Our guest, Elisabeth Petry is a journalist. She knows how to uncover a clue, follow a lead, and tell a good story. Her mother was bestselling noveli…
6 years, 6 months ago
Governor Ned Lamont. "100 Years of Fake News and Real and Fake Wars"
Episode 79
Every Governor of our state makes history, but there have been very few who know their history as well as Connecticut's current governor …
6 years, 7 months ago
Uncovering African and Native American lives in 17th - 18th Century Hartford
Season 2 Episode 78
Four hundred years ago, in August 1619, more than 20 kidnapped enslaved African people were sold to the Virginia colonists. Slavery was well establ…
6 years, 8 months ago
77. The Delicious History of Pizza in New Haven
Food historian and author of Pizza in New Haven Colin M. Caplin tells State Historian Walt Woodward and co-host Betsy Golden Kellem the fascinating …
6 years, 8 months ago
The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan in Connecticut in the 1920s
Season 2 Episode 76
In this installment of GTN, Natalie Belanger of the Connecticut Historical Society takes a walk through the museum's archival collection of documen…
6 years, 9 months ago
For Whom the Tolls Toll. The History of Toll Roads in Connecticut
Episode 75
In this Gate-leg Table interview with state historian Walt Woodward, transportation historian Richard DeLuca takes us on an expert's tour of Connecti…
6 years, 9 months ago
Post WWII: 1949 Travel Diary of Beatrice Auerbach with Congresswoman Chase Woodhouse
Season 2 Episode 74
Two of Connecticut's most influential women, Beatrice Fox Auerbach, the owner of G. Fox, the largest privately-owned department store in the United S…
6 years, 10 months ago
Dept Stores, G.Fox and the Black Freedom Movement
Season 2 Episode 73
This summer the Connecticut Historical Society is hosting an exhibition called Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow. It's a traveling show tha…
6 years, 10 months ago
72a BONUS EPISODE: Colin Calloway on Dartmouth as a School for Native Americans
BONUS CONTENT: LECTURE ONLY
6 years, 11 months ago