In 1768, Cook sailed the Endeavour from Plymouth to see the transit of Venus at Tahiti, and to explore the hitherto little-known South Pacific. He then sailed around New Zealand, and in 1770 surveyed ...

“William Waldorf Astor: from American Tycoon to English Lord,” will be the subject of the lecture given by the Greenwich branch of the English Speaking Union, on Oct. 19 at the Round Hill Club.

Whether the shape of American English is as contemporary as Quentin Tarantino, as rococo as Coolio, as orotund as Pat Buchanan, or as natural as Annie Dillard, an intrepid legion of language ...

In collaboration with the Connecticut League of History Organization, the Norwich Historical Society is sponsoring a free virtual winter lecture series based on topics from our Walk Norwich Trail ...