Tag Archives: colonial period

Criminal Records

Whitney Library, New Haven Museum

Numerous historians have asserted that, during its heady first decades starting in 1638, the colony of New Haven was the purest of all the Puritan theocracies established in the New World. …

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Give and Take

300th anniversary medallion. Image courtesy of Robert S. Greenberg Collection of New Haven History.

What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving?

We might suggest an addition: that the important people in your life generally get your name right.…

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