History

As the country continues to honor and remember the legacy of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Connecticut Public looked back to April 1985, when the former president spoke to an audience of 3,000 at Central Connecticut State University.

The singing dinosaur show wouldn’t have made it to PBS airwaves, or gone on to shape a generation of kids, if it weren’t for a fateful day at a video store in Prospect, Connecticut.

A 1963 conference on the "Low-Income Housing Crisis" in Boston was upended by news of the president's death.

The Barre Museum Association repatriated two native headdresses to the Oglala Sioux Tribe. The items date back to the late 1800s.

In April, Michael Morand became the city’s official historian. He hopes that one day, people all across the Elm City will know more about its past.

The display outside Connecticut’s Old State House stretches back to the 1600s.

For about 20 years a cannon of unknown origin stood in front of the West Windsor town hall. The town learned recently that it was possibly stolen and has no connection to the town's history.

The New England Air Museum exhibit highlights the story of the first Black military aviators in the U.S. armed forces.

For 150 years, the Mark Twain House and Museum has stood as a monument to one of America’s greatest authors. Its interim leader talks about why Twain's legacy endures.

Students of Springfield, Massachusetts, history may know the name Joseph Budd as the first African American in the city's police department to achieve the rank of sergeant, lieutenant and captain. Less well known was Budd's service in the U.S. military. He served during World War II in a racially segregated unit called the Montford Point Marines.