History

Newspapers like the Massachusetts Spy published bold, new ideas — and the shortcomings of their British leaders.

College student Abraham Lima sheds light on the diversity of Bridgeport’s Latino communities in a series with Bridgeport History Center.

A church connected to Lucy and Lois, documented as the final two enslaved people sold in New Haven in 1825, recently held a service to honor their stories and resilience.

The exhibit, "Shining Light on Truth: New Haven, Yale and Slavery," has been open at the New Haven Museum for about a year. The exhibit has been impactful for students because many can see how the fight for equality got its start at the local level, a museum official said.

In 1848, the Boston Athenaeum acquired more than 300 volumes from the famed Virginian's collection of books. They nearly ended up in the British Museum instead.

A Connecticut community has taken another step toward reckoning with its past history of slavery. For the first time ever, the town has named a street after a person who was enslaved there and walked that path each day.

Estimates say that millions of dollars and tens of thousands of acres of land throughout New England were given to soldiers who scalped Native Americans.

Connecticut's Royal Charter of 1662 recently underwent a six month conservation treatment and will be on display for one day on Feb. 4, 2025.

Researchers are pouring over old whaling-ship logs at the Providence Public Library to see if the records can help us understand our changing climate.

The African Meeting House on Nantucket was consecrated in 1825. Two hundred years later, it still stands.