Author: Matthew Novosad

Matt Novosad works a Librarian and serves as the Municipal Historian for the Town of Franklin, Connecticut. As both an undergraduate and graduate student, he studied at the University of Connecticut where he earned a Bachelors in Maritime Studies in 2018, and a Masters in History in 2022. Additionally, he serves as President of the Franklin Historical Society and is a board-member of the Ashbel Woodward Museum. In all of this work, he is dedicated towards understanding the ways in which local history connects to national and international subjects.

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“Rebel Yankeys”: Anatomy of a Connecticut Militia Company at Saratoga

Ebenezer Lathrop’s company of militia which marched from Norwich, Connecticut, to Stillwater, New York, in the autumn of 1777 makes an excellent case study to understand Connecticut’s militia forces in the middle of the American War of Independence. When Connecticut raised companies that Fall to serve with Gen. Horatio Gates’s army, most were formed by […]

by Matthew Novosad