Towns

.

Explore Towns

Topics

.

Explore Topics

Eras

.

Explore Eras

People

.

Explore People

Featured Stories from CT History

A Memorial to General Hawley at the State Capitol
October 24, 2021
Connecticut River, 2011
Old Saybrook Faces Down Threats to Its Water Supply
October 23, 2021
New-Gate Prison courtyard
Notorious New-Gate Prison
October 22, 2021
Gershom Bartlett, Winged Face
The Art of Life and Death in Colonial Bolton
October 21, 2021
Anna Hyatt Huntington
A Celebrated Artist and a Meaningful Space – Today in History: October 20
October 20, 2021
A Revolutionary Book Designer: Bruce Rogers of New Fairfield
October 19, 2021
Camp à Contorbery, le 7 Novembre, 10 milles de Windham
Map – Rochambeau’s Camp at Canterbury
October 18, 2021
German American workers from the buff room
Late 19th-Century Immigration in Connecticut
October 17, 2021
Asaph Hall, August 1899
Goshen’s Asaph Hall Becomes an Astronomical Success
October 16, 2021
Byram River, Pemberwick, October 16, 1955
Byram River Flood – Today in History: October 15
October 15, 2021
Dry Nutmegs
The Storied History behind Connecticut’s Nicknames
October 14, 2021
Hindenburg over The Travelers Tower
Video – The Hindenburg Flies Over Hartford
October 14, 2021
Bradley Smith Co., Inc., Grand Avenue, New Haven
New Haven Gives the Lollipop its Name – Today in History: October 13
October 13, 2021
New Netherlands and New England map
Reckoning with the Dutch: the Treaty of Hartford, 1650
October 12, 2021
Timothy Dwight Provides Religious, Military, and Educational Services for a Young Country
October 11, 2021
Alexander Calder at Stegosaurus sculpture dedication
Calder’s Stegosaurus Dedicated – Today in History: October 10
October 10, 2021
Main Street, During Fair Week
The Great Danbury State Fair & Early 20th-Century Outdoor Advertising
October 9, 2021
The crew and passengers of the steamboat Sunshine
Rising Tide: Steamboat Workers on the Connecticut River
October 8, 2021
Typing History
October 7, 2021
Illuminations at the entrance to the Bulkeley Bridge
Mighty, Mighty Hartford
October 6, 2021
Henry Augustus Loop, Jonathan Edwards
Connecticut Origins Shape New Light Luminary Jonathan Edwards
October 5, 2021
Unveiling of the Grant Memorial Tablet – Today in History: October 4
October 4, 2021
Whitneyville Armory, Whitney's Improved Fire-Arms, from an advertisement, ca. 1862
The Whitney Armory Helps Progress in Hamden
October 4, 2021
Residence and Library of Ithiel Town, New Haven
American Architect Ithiel Town Born – Today in History: October 3
October 3, 2021
Steam-powered cider press at BF Clyde's in Mystic
BF Clyde and the Steam-powered Cider Mill – Who Knew?
October 2, 2021
Norwich City Hall, Union Square, Norwich, New London County
Site Lines: Monuments to Connecticut’s Lost County Government
October 1, 2021
World War I broadside referencing Kaiser Wilhelm's Willing Helpers, ca. early 1900s from the Connecticut War Exhibit
Winning the Great War without Some Books
September 30, 2021
Pulling Down the Statue of King George II, New York City
Mariann Wolcott and Ralph Earl – Opposites Come Together and Make History
September 29, 2021
Map of the Freedom Trail Sites
Site Lines: Connecticut’s Freedom Trail
September 28, 2021
Evelyn Beatrice Longman Commemorates the Working Class
September 27, 2021
When the NFL Played in Connecticut: The Hartford Blues
September 26, 2021
A Monument Memorializes the Fallen
September 25, 2021
Benjamin Spock: Raising the World’s Children
September 24, 2021
Charcoal Kiln, Union
1938 Hurricane Fuels Charcoal Business – Who Knew?
September 23, 2021
Walt Dropo, Boston Red Sox
Walt Dropo Stars Throughout New England
September 22, 2021
Nathan Hale Statue, Hartford
Nathan Hale Hanged in New York – Today in History: September 22
September 22, 2021
Senator William Wallace Eaton
William Eaton, a Peace Democrat and Civil War Opponent
September 21, 2021
Thomas Hooker: Connecticut’s Founding Father
September 20, 2021
Art Young, Radical Cartoonist
September 19, 2021
The Rise of the Black Panther Party in Connecticut
September 18, 2021
Remembering Civil War Prisoners of War
September 17, 2021
Panorama of Bushnell Park, 1920s
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch – Today in History: September 17
September 17, 2021
Needlework by Prudence Punderson
Prudence Punderson, Ordinary Woman, Extraordinary Artist: Needlework in Connecticut
September 16, 2021
Penguins, 1933-35, Antarctic
Sixty Degrees Below Zero: Connecticut Man Explores Antarctica
September 15, 2021
Amasa Preston House
“Washburn Colonials”: Distinguished 1920s Homes Stand the Test of Time
September 14, 2021
Igor Sikorsky's first helicopter ascent, Stratford
World’s First Helicopter – Today in History: September 14
September 14, 2021
Illustration of Lorenzo Carter's first cabin
Putting Cleveland on the Map: Lorenzo Carter on the Ohio Frontier
September 14, 2021
1954 ad for Pioneer Parachutes
Parachutist Snagged in Midair – Today in History: September 13
September 13, 2021
Catharine Beecher, Champion of Women’s Education
September 12, 2021
Nutrition class, Connecticut Agricultural College
From Aprons to Lab Coats: The Art and Science of Home Economics
September 11, 2021

Today in CT History

October 24: Baseball Legend Jackie Robinson Dies in Stamford

Find Out More

Sign Up For Email Updates

Oops! We could not locate your form.