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Samson Occom the Man - Mohegan Elder Beth Regan
In Part 2 of our Series Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the Founding of Dartmouth College and Its Roots in the town of Columbia. Mohegan El…
6 years, 11 months ago
Eleazar Wheelock, the Great Awakening Samson Occom, and the Indian School
Season 2 Episode 71
Recently, alumni of Dartmouth College, members of the Mohegan nation, the Columbia Historical Society and state and local officials gathered in the …
7 years ago
Anni and Josef Albers in Connecticut
Season 2 Episode 70
This episode celebrates the 100th anniversary of the most influential design school of the twentieth century, the Bauhaus, and Connecticut's connect…
7 years ago
The Breach: Voices Haunting a New England Mill Town
Season 2 Episode 69
It's not very often that a historian interviews a poet for a history podcast, but in this episode state historian Walt Woodward inter…
7 years, 1 month ago
Fort Trumbull's Three Lives
Season 2 Episode 67
In this podcast cross-over episode, Johnna Kaplan, author of Connecticut Explored's spring 2019 story about Fort Trumbull in New London, Connecticu…
7 years, 1 month ago
Louis Comfort Tiffany in New London
Season 2 Episode 67
The story behind this episode started with the high-profile heist in 1991 of a stained-glass window from the nineteenth century mausoleum of a New L…
7 years, 2 months ago
Sharon Cures: A Small Town of Medical Miracles
Season 2 Episode 66
Recently, US News and World Report ranked Connecticut 4th best among the 50 states in the quality of our healthcare. We have great research universit…
7 years, 3 months ago
Norwalk's Village Creek Ahead of Its Time
Season 2 Episode 65
After World War II, one Connecticut community made a conscious effort to reject racial segregation. The founders of Village Creek in Norwalk cre…
7 years, 3 months ago
Best Winter History Rads
Season 2 Episode 64
State Historian Walt Woodward asked five of Connecticut's leading voices for the history community, what their favorite winter history reads are…
7 years, 4 months ago
Why the Constitution of 1818 Matters Today
Season 2 Episode 63
This is the fifth in our series of talks presented by Connecticut's Old State House commemorating the 300th anniversary of Connecticut's first state…
7 years, 4 months ago