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Articles

  • Bowler, Clara Ann. “Carted Whores and White Shrouded Apologies: Slander in the County Courts of Seventeenth-Century Virginia.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 85, no. 4 (October 1977): 411-426. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4248161
  • Brown, Irene Quenzler. “Book Review Essay: A History of Stepfamilies in Early America, by Lisa Wilson.” Connecticut History Review 55, no. 1 (2016): 90-95.
  • Cohn, Henry S. “Connecticut’s Divorce Mechanism: 1636 - 1969.” The American Journal of Legal History 14, no. 1 (January 1970): 35-54. https://www.jstor.org/stable/844518.
  • DeBrincat, Dominic. “‘All Dregs of the Said Distemper’: Containing Smallpox and Religious Dissent in Colonial Connecticut.” Connecticut History Review 58, no. 2 (2019): 3. https://doi.org/10.5406/connhistrevi.58.2.0003
  • Gaskins, Richard. “Changes in the Criminal Law in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut.” The American Journal of Legal History 25, no. 4 (1981): 309-342. https://doi.org/10.2307/845276
  • McGrath, Stephen P. “Connecticut’s Contrarians: The Loyalists of Fairfield County.” Connecticut History Review 54, no. 2 (2015): 243-255. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44370299
  • Stannard, David E. “Death and Dying in Puritan New England.” The American Historical Review 78, no. 5 (December 1973): 1305-1330. https://doi.org/10.2307/1854094
  • Wolfe, Missy. “‘Always a Wayward Daughter’: The First Dutch Jurisdiction of Greenwich, Connecticut.” Connecticut History Review 54, no. 2 (2015): 193-216. https://doi.org/10.2307/44370297.

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Currency

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Language and Grammar

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Laws

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Names

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Religion

Information about religion and the role it played in colonial and early American communities.

Revolutionary War

Information about Patriots and Loyalists in Connecticut during the American Revolution.

Witchcraft

Information about witchcraft panics and prosecutions in Connecticut.

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