Hartford, Connecticut

documented and popularized, there are many other examples of witch hunts and trials that did not reach such fanatical levels. In his book Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt Dr. Richard Godbeer explores a relatively unknown witch hunt in Stamford, Connecticut in 1692. This witch hunt and the trials that followed escaped the scrutiny of historians for many years because the events of the Salem Witch…

influenced many of Stowe’s novels. Stowe was born on June 14, 1811 to Roxana Foote Beecher and Reverend Lyman Beecher. Growing up in Litchfield, Connecticut, her father served as a calvinist minister, while her mother took care of the children and worked around the house. Due to the substandard education offered to girls, Stowe attended the Hartford Female Seminary, where she took classes like math and Latin. After graduating at age sixteen, Stowe stayed at her seminary and became a teacher.…

“Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth,” The beloved baseball star Lou Gehrig once said. Lou Gehrig was an amazing baseball player. He was known for his hard work and iron will. Lou Gehrig was the Iron Horse of the New York Yankees, he became one of the best in baseball at a young age, and sadly, he retired young from a deadly disease, that later killed him. Lou Gehrig was born June 19, 1903 in New York, at an early age He helped his mom run errands while she was…

The October 7th, 1776 issue of the Connecticut Courant, now better known as the Hartford Courant, had both an appealing and hard to look at appearance and the layout of the newspaper was a bit disorganized. The newspaper had no particular order and it was difficult to differentiate the stories. A particular article that was a bit simpler to tell apart was the one titled WILLIAMSBURG, dated September 13 on page two of the newspaper. The article is about a general who plans to break up Florida and…

La Amistad project In February of 1839, Portuguese slave hunters abducted a large group of Africans from Sierra Leone and shipped them to Havana, Cuba, which was a hub for slave trade. This was highly illegal and violated all the treaties that were in place at that time. Once they arrived in Havana Cuba the 53 slaves that were illegally purchased were then boarded onto a slave ship named the Amistad. During the middle of their trip the illegally purchased slaves overthrew the crew…

started this paper, I had never heard of Alice Cogswell. I chose her because I have always loved the name Alice. However, now that I have read about her, I can truly see how important she was to the deaf people. Alice Cogswell was born in Hartford, Connecticut on August 31, 1805. When she was two years old, she got extremely sick with cerebral spinal meningitis, also known as “spotted fever”. It was because of this illness that she lost her hearing and eventually her speech as well. A man named…

Chapter 12 The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism 1812-1824 On to Canada over Land and Lakes The Americans tried to invade Canada from Detroit, Niagara, and Lake Champlain. All were fought off by the Canadians. The Americans then attacked by sea and were more successful. Oliver Hazard Perry: captured a British fleet in Lake Erie. General Harrison's army overtook the British at Detroit and Fort Malden in the Battle of the Thames in October 1813. Thomas Macdonough:…

Every Indian tribe is different, some may be similar but no two tribes are exactly the same. The Pequot tribe, known for their trade in beadwork and basketry, is located in what is now known as Connecticut, near rivers. The men hunt their own food, which are wild animals, such as deer, while the women in the tribe stick to planting crops. Unfortunately the Pequots were blamed for the death of someone whom they never killed. After the war that ended in 1638 there was a treaty signed in which it…

Everyone’s story is different. This is my story. I was born in Hartford, Connecticut on March 5th,2003. That’s some of the boring stuff but moving to Texas was one of my best gifts. I meet my best friends, i’ve went to great schools, and I found a love for multiple things. I’ve been given a lot of other gifts on the way. Such as meeting my best friend and getting invited to a club volleyball team. The second best gift I got was meeting my very first best friend named victoria. We were in…

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was born on December 10, 1787 in Philadelphia. He was a pioneer in the teaching of American Sign Language and the rights of the deaf. He was a very intelligent student. He succeeded in graduating from Yale Collage in 1805. His interest in teaching and finding out more about deaf people, developed when he met a little girl. The first time he saw her, he walked up to her and asked her why…