Articles

Richard DeLuca

Against the Tide: The Unfortunate Life of Steamboat Inventor
John Fitch

Joseph Bongiorno

In Pursuit of Intelligent Cultivation: Theodore Sedgwick Gold and Agriculture in Nineteenth Century Connecticut

Susan Hoffman Fishman and Katherine D. Kane

The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center’s Teacher Institutes: A Model for Historic Sites and Educators

Ralph Frasca

“I am now about to establish a small Printing Office . . . atNewhaven”: Benjamin Franklin and the First Newspaper in Connecticut

Essays

Edward M. Bradley

In Pursuit of Sarah Perkins Durrie; or, the “stammering art” of a Nineteenth Century Painter

Matthew Warshauer

A Man of Stature: Walt Woodward, State Historian

Eileen M. Hurst

Voices of Connecticut Veterans: Stephen J. Stupak and the German Death March

The Connecticut Curriculum

John Day Tully

The Connecticut Curriculum: “Against the Tide:

The Unfortunate Life of Steamboat Inventor John Fitch” in the

 Social Studies/History Classroom

Richard DeLuca

John Fitch and the Challenges of Invention and Patent: The Documents

Matthew Warshauer

In Search of the Electronic Fitch: A Website

Review of John Fitch and Steamboat Materials

Cynthia J. Riccio

Connecticut Connections

Exhibitions Reviews

The Connecticut Historical Society, Are We Clean Yet? A Lighthearted Look at

       the Pursuit of Cleanliness Over Two Centuries.

          Reviewed by Karin E. Peterson    

Torrington Historical Society, No Place Like Home: The History of Torrington.

          Reviewed by Jonathon Shay

Bush-Holley Historic Site, The Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich,

       Intimate Strangers: Slavery and Freedom in Fairfield County, 1700-1850.

          Reviewed by Karl Valois

Exhibitions of Interest

Book Review Essays

“Urbanism is History” A Review of Douglas W. Rae, City: Urbanism and Its
    End.

   Reviewed by Michael Willrich

“A Question of Balance: Evangelical Revivalism, Calvinist Theology, and
     Enlightenment Philosophy in George M. Marsden’s Jonathan Edwards: A
     Life” A Review of George Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life.
        Reviewed by Stephen A. Wilson

Book Reviews

Pamela J. Belanger, ed., Envisioning New England: Treasures from Community
     Art Museums.

         Reviewed by Adam Greenhalgh

Brian T. Allen, Sugaring Off: The Maple Sugar Paintings of Eastman Johnson.
          Reviewed by Lynda Petrillo

Janet Siskind, Rum & Axes: The Rise of a Connecticut Merchant Family, 1795-
     1850.

          Reviewed by John M. Lund

Bibliography of Connecticut History