A brief history of doo-wop in New Haven:
“The Five Satins. Ooooooh!” …
There are other New Havens in the world, and at least one of them is even less new than ours.
In his seminal history Three Centuries of New Haven (1953), Rollin G. Osterweis writes that the reasoning behind our city’s …
Many New Haveners have done great things, but few are more accomplished than 27th President of the United States and 10th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court William Howard Taft. …
As the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs prepare to battle for Super Bowl rings this Sunday, you might think New Haven doesn’t have a team to root for.
Let’s game it out. …
Researching family history for the publication of her parents’ love letters was interesting and fun, Hamden author Jill Snyder says. It was also healing. …
It’s hard to imagine the game of football without yard lines and fourth downs and organized teams of 11. But before New Havener Walter Camp, the sport was missing all of those elements and more. …
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To find 13th-century diagrams of Jerusalem, a map of unconquered Tenochtitlan, 16th-century Venetian and Arabic atlases and some of the first topographical renderings of …