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Older sister Harriet Beecher Stowe was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Brother Henry Ward Beecher was one of the nation's most influential ministers. Their sibling Catharine Beecher wrote pivotal works on women's rights and educational reform. And then there was Isabella Beecher Hooker- "a curiously modern nineteenth-century figure."
Tempest-Tossed is the first full biography of the passionate, fascinating youngest daughter of the "Fabulous Beechers"...
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This lively biography of America's most famous traitor offers a new perspective on his terrible legacy as well as life in Revolutionary Era Connecticut.
On September 6, 1781, Connecticut native Benedict Arnold and a force of 1,700 British soldiers and loyalists took Fort Griswold and burnt New London to the ground. The brutality of the invasion galvanized the new nation, and "Remember New London!" would become a rallying cry for troops under General...
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An "evocative and entertaining" biography of the nineteenth century circus performer who became a global phenomenon (Neil Harris, author of Humbug).
When P. T. Barnum met twenty-five-inch-tall Charles Stratton at a Bridgeport, Connecticut hotel in 1843, one of the most important partnerships in entertainment history was born. With Barnum's promotional skills and the miniature Stratton's comedic talents, they charmed a Who's Who of the nineteenth...
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