Hartford Courant

The Hartford Courant is the oldest continuously published city newspaper in the country; it began as a weekly paper in 1764 and became a daily in 1837. Yale University Press is a major academic publisher that is recognized throughout the world.

The Hartford Courant (1764) is the nation’s oldest surviving newspaper. The city is the birthplace of the writer and lecturer John Fiske, the firearms manufacturer Samuel Colt, and the financier J.P. Morgan. It was the home of the writers Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain (both…