John Winthrop

Book Review: 'Not Fit for Our Society' by Peter Schrag

2010-06-13 00:00:00

Not Fit for Our Society Immigration and Nativism in America Peter Schrag University of California Press: 232 pp., $26.95 One long ago morning in California, as debate raged over the anti-immigration initiative known as Proposition 187, I walked into a...

We're on the brink of apocalypse! Again!

2007-12-03 00:00:00

The sky is falling! The end is near! Just in time for the Christmas season, Pat Buchanan has published yet another jeremiad warning that America is about to go belly up. You'd think that the American public would get tired of the unrelenting gloominess...

America tortures (yawn)

2007-02-23 00:00:00

IT WAS MUCH LIKE the usual Nigerian e-mail scam, but it had a dispiriting twist. "Greetings," went the e-mail, "I am Captain Smith Scott of the US Marine Force � in Baghdad-Iraq. On the 10th day of February 2007 � we captured three (3) of the Terrorists�...

Books on wine from the University of California Press

2008-07-02 00:00:00

Pages off the vine Recent and upcoming wine books from the University of California Press: "Bordeaux/Burgundy: A Vintage Rivalry, by Jean-Robert Pitte, translated by M.B. DeBevoise. "New Classic Winemakers of California," conversations with Steve...

New London's staying power

2007-07-12 12:20:14

When he fishes, Joseph Ibrahim usually just drops a line in or around Groton, Conn., his shoreline hometown. But on this blustery spring day, he's come with his family -- daughter Arianna, 5, and her mother, Crissy Rousey -- to try his luck off New...

'A Tolerable Anarchy' by Jedediah Purdy and 'The Myth of American Exceptionalism' by Godfrey Hodgson

2009-03-22 00:00:00

A Tolerable Anarchy Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of America's Freedom Jedediah Purdy Alfred A. Knopf: 294 pp., $23.95 The Myth of American Exceptionalism Godfrey Hodgson Yale University Press: 222 pp., $26 In his 2003 book "Being...

The meaning of Obama

2008-11-10 00:00:00

There's little doubt that Barack Obama's redemptive message of change grabbed Americans by the throat. After all, it's in times full of fear and despair that people are hungry for hope. Obama's triumph and victory speech were moving not only because...

Farewell Address

2001-06-21 17:16:39

This is the 34th time I'll speak to you from the Oval Office and the last. We've been together 8 years now, and soon it'll be time for me to go. But before I do, I wanted to share some thoughts, some of which I've been saving for a long time. It's been...

School Bus Crash In Deep River

2012-02-03 10:57:52

Settlers endured terror, pain

2011-11-18 13:54:00

Did you ever wonder how we know about Pocahontas and her role in the history of Jamestown, Va.? Or how we learned that Squanto helped the Pilgrims at Plymouth? Perhaps you've wondered if the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay followed the law as severely...

'Making Connecticut' Explores State's History

2011-05-22 00:00:00

Established in 1825, the Connecticut Historical Society,one of the oldest historical societies in the nation, has amassed about 30,000 objects relating to state history. For its first newly installed "permanent" exhibit in 12 years, in a newly widened...

PBS looks for 'God in America'

2010-10-06 14:19:01

Airing over three consecutive nights beginning Monday, Oct. 11 (check local listings), the six-hour PBS series "God in America," a co-venture of "Frontline" and "American Experience," blends documentary footage, historical dramatizations and interviews...

The Rock WCCC's First Place Middle School Division Award was presented to John Winthrop Middle School for their story "Essex Steam Train".

2008-05-27 11:31:39

Fox 61/CW 20 Student News Awards Students and their teacher from John Winthrop Middle School in Deep River show off their awards.

2007-05-16 07:01:30

The Hartford Courant Current Affairs Award Middle School Division 1st Place: John Winthrop Middle School - Deep River - "Black Highlander Bull"

2007-05-16 06:32:08