Fall 2014 VOLUME 12/NUMBER 4
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IN THIS ISSUE: The Power of the Pen > Welles on Lincoln > The Courant and Its Politics > The Unsung Novelist Ann Petry > Our Newbery and Caldecott Medal Winners >
Connecticut Pioneers Copyright Law
ON THE COVER: (l to r) Novelist Ann Petry (page 26), courtesy of Elisabeth Petry; Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles (page 20), Library of Congress; “Cubist Reflection,” Richard Welling (page 14), Connecticut Historical Society; Journalist Ida Tarbell (page 50), Library of Congress
Table of Contents
9 Hog River Journal: Can you Trust What You Read? By Elizabeth Normen
10 Letters, etc.
13 From the State Historian: Birth Control and Zones of Privacy
By Walter W. Woodward
14 Hartford’s Artist Historian
With pen and ink, Richard Welling documented a city. By Nancy Finlay
20 Gideon Welles: A Connecticut Yankee in Lincoln’s Cabinet
History in the words of Lincoln’s secretary of the navy. By J. Ronald Spencer
26 Ann Petry: “Just Like Georgia Except for the Climate”
Novelist Ann Petry captured mid-20th-century Connecticut. By Elisabeth Petry
32 Children’s Books: Once Upon a Time in Connecticut
Our history of award-winning children’s books. By Jennifer LaRue
38 The Political Fires that Fueled The Courant
For most of its 250 years, politics was the point. By Joseph F. Nunes
43 Noah Webster: Father of American Copyright Law By Elizabeth J. Normen
46 Defense of Lady Byron: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Unpopular Cause By Beth Burgess
48 When Books Became Enemy Propaganda By Mark H. Jones
50 Site Lines Ida Tarbell: A Muckracker Retreats to Easton By Karin Peterson
52 From the Desk of Connecticut Humanities. By Amanda Roy
54 Spotlight: Events & News from Partner Organizations
60 Afterword