Hartford Courant
Hartford Courant
Hartford Courant
| Access Information: | Access on and off campus. The Library's subscription to this resource expires 31 July 2024. |
| Description: | America's longest continuously published newspaper, the Hartford Courant is literally older than the United States. It provides historians and other researchers a front-row seat from which to view the birth of an independent nation. In the Courant’s pages, today’s researchers will find firsthand accounts of colonists’ reaction to the Stamp Act, reports of the Boston Tea Party, and a copy of the Declaration of Independence. The newspaper’s existence was so crucial to the rebels’ cause during the American Revolution that when its paper mill burned, the Connecticut legislature authorized a lottery to build a new mill. |
| Coverage: | 1764-1994 |