We’re not sure any spelling went on Thursday, but we are sure the home of our most celebrated lexicographer got visitors who enjoyed seeing it spruced up. Noah Webster is credited with creating the ...

The Noah Webster House & West Hartford History Society announced Jeffrey J. Mainville as its new executive director on Monday. Jennifer Matos, who was the executive director from 2014-23, recently ...

Spanish educator Sandra Wolff has lived in West Hartford for over 30 years, but she is originally from South America. She remembers using the dictionary to learn a new language. “I use the Noah ...

Jeri Chase Ferris, illus. by Vincent X. Kirsch. Houghton Mifflin, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-547-39055-0 "Noah's dictionary is the second most popular book ever printed in English, after the Bible," ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Noah Webster is justly considered a polymath for his contributions to a staggering range of fields, including ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The announcement came in 1800 in the back of a Connecticut newspaper just above a farmer’s reward for a stray cow. A man named Noah Webster was proposing the first comprehensive ...

In a previous post, I discussed Noah Webster's compulsive nature. His "touch of madness" -- his obsession with compiling and organizing information of all sorts -- enabled him to devote thirty years ...

More than two centuries after Noah Webster published the first American dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, the publishing house that bears his name is developing a line of ...