Connecticut in the American Civil War: Slavery, Sacrifice, and Survival

Understanding the Importance of Connecticut’s War Experience In 1965 John Niven published a well-researched book Connecticut for the Union as part of the centenary commemoration of the Civil War. The momentous African-American protest movements, a Second Reconstruction, were at ...

William Lloyd Garrison: Abolition, Democracy, and Radical Reform

Story of an Unlikely Duo Since the international entanglements commencing with the Second World War, an exclusive national history of the United States has proven to be a woefully parochial and an inadequate paradigm. Comparative analysis, particularly a focus on the Atlantic world, is n...