The authors explore the symbol of the American melting pot and other concepts in an oral history comprising the voices of European immigrants to Connecticut.

Manufacturer: UPNE
Written By: Bruce M. Stave, John F. Sutherland

The history of the Jackson family, like many other African American families and individuals, is an example of those whose lives are threads interwoven into the history of this country. Much more than a family history, this history is written so that historical substance is given to the role African Americans played in the development of the life of our country. This fascinating story takes ...

Manufacturer: Heritage Books, Inc.
Written By: Alene J. Smith, Adeline J. Tucker

Manufacturer: Connecticut Society of Genealogists

Manufacturer: Connecticut Society of Genealogists

The years from 1690 to 1765 in America have usually been considered a waiting period before the Revolution. Mr. Bushman, in his penetrating study of colonial Connecticut, takes another view. He shows how, during these years, economic ambition and religious ferment profoundly altered the structure of Puritan society, enlarging the bounds of liberty and inspiring resistance to established ...

Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Written By: Richard L. Bushman

Manufacturer: Heritage Books
Written By: Grace Louise Knox, Barbara B. Ferris

Manufacturer: UPNE

The history of the witchcraft trials of Colonial Connecticut from original documents including, in some cases, depositions to court and letters not previously published. Covers the period from the first execution for witchcraft in America (Alse Youngs of Windsor, CT 1647)to the Fairfield Witch Panic of 1692 (contemporary with the Salem, MA trials). Contains the Great Hartford Witch Panic of ...

Manufacturer: Connecticut Research, Inc.
Written By: Richard G. Tomlinson

With warmth and a keen eye for the nuances of history and place, David K. Leff offers this affectionate, insightful portrait of his adopted home of Collinsville, Connecticut, a village that looked perfectly ordinary until he fell prey to its rhythms and charm. The town taught him a new way of seeing his environment, and through this process he discovered what many Americans long for amid the ...

Manufacturer: University of Virginia Press
Written By: David K. Leff

Covering 137 Connecticut towns and comprising 14,333 typed pages, the Barbour Collection of Connecticut birth, marriage, and death records to about 1850 was the life work of Lucius Barnes Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1911 to 1934. This present series, under the editorship of Lorraine Cook White, is a town-by-town transcription of Barbour's celebrated collection ...

Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing Company
Written By: Lorraine Cook White