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Old Flames

Old Flames

“My Own Dear Addie—” William Augur wrote on October 27, 1861, from the steamship Illinois, “I received your long, loving letter Thursday afternoon, the 24th and read it with great...

Old Flames

“My Own Dear Addie—” William Augur wrote on October 27, 1861, from the steamship Illinois, “I received your long, loving letter Thursday afternoon, the 24th and read it with great...

Local Rooting

Local Rooting

When we published this test of allegiances in 2023, the Eagles and Chiefs were about to play in the Super Bowl. Which is right where we find ourselves in 2025....

Local Rooting

When we published this test of allegiances in 2023, the Eagles and Chiefs were about to play in the Super Bowl. Which is right where we find ourselves in 2025....

Banner Day

Banner Day

For most of New Haven history, the best way to get a message out was to put it into print. And the biggest way to do that, at least on...

Banner Day

For most of New Haven history, the best way to get a message out was to put it into print. And the biggest way to do that, at least on...

Civil Action

Civil Action

The corner of Edgewood Avenue and Garden Street near Amistad Academy Middle School has an extra green street sign. It identifies the spot as Constance B. Motley Corner, which rests...

Civil Action

The corner of Edgewood Avenue and Garden Street near Amistad Academy Middle School has an extra green street sign. It identifies the spot as Constance B. Motley Corner, which rests...

Free at Last

Free at Last

At the end of Life of William Grimes, The Runaway Slave. Written by Himself., Grimes’s statement that “I have learned to read and write pretty well” is proven by the...

Free at Last

At the end of Life of William Grimes, The Runaway Slave. Written by Himself., Grimes’s statement that “I have learned to read and write pretty well” is proven by the...

Past Life

Past Life

There’s an unbridgeable distance between a book about life and life itself. But the third edition of Life at Yale, a large alumni-produced pamphlet published in 1920 to “fairly” introduce...

Past Life

There’s an unbridgeable distance between a book about life and life itself. But the third edition of Life at Yale, a large alumni-produced pamphlet published in 1920 to “fairly” introduce...