Creating Connecticut: Critical Moments That Shaped a Great State

By: Walter W. Woodward

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Synopsis: Connecticut State Historian Walter Woodward helps us understand how people and events in Connecticut&’s past played crucial roles in forming the culture and character of Connecticut today. Woodward, a gifted story-teller, brings the history we thought we knew to life in new ways, from the nearly forgotten early presence of the Dutch, to the time when Connecticut was New England&’s fiercest prosecutor of witches, the decades when Connecticans were rapidly leaving the state, and the years when Irish immigrants were hurrying into it. Whether it&’s his investigation into the unusually rough justice meted out to Revolutionary War hero Nathan Hale, or a peek into Mark Twain&’s smoking habits, Creating Connecticut will leave you thinking about our state&’s past––and its future––in a whole new way.