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Gravestones, Old Burying Ground, Hartford
The Art of Burying the Dead: Exploring Connecticut’s Historic Cemeteries
October 19, 2019
View on the Erie Canal
Benjamin Wright: The Father of American Civil Engineering
October 18, 2019
German American workers from the buff room
Late 19th-Century Immigration in Connecticut
October 17, 2019
Asaph Hall, August 1899
Goshen’s Asaph Hall Becomes an Astronomical Success
October 16, 2019
Byram River, Pemberwick, October 16, 1955
Byram River Flood – Today in History: October 15
October 15, 2019
A Revolutionary Book Designer: Bruce Rogers of New Fairfield
October 14, 2019
Bradley Smith Co., Inc., Grand Avenue, New Haven
New Haven Gives the Lollipop its Name – Today in History: October 13
October 13, 2019
Gerald Chapman: America’s First “Public Enemy Number One”
October 12, 2019
Camp à Contorbery, le 7 Novembre, 10 milles de Windham
Map – Rochambeau’s Camp at Canterbury
October 11, 2019
Alexander Calder at Stegosaurus sculpture dedication
Calder’s Stegosaurus Dedicated – Today in History: October 10
October 10, 2019
Whitneyville Armory, Whitney's Improved Fire-Arms, from an advertisement, ca. 1862
The Whitney Armory Helps Progress in Hamden
October 9, 2019
General Joseph R. Hawley
General Joseph R. Hawley Helps Commemorate Connecticut’s Civil War Soldiers
October 8, 2019
A Different “Type” of Connecticut Industry
October 7, 2019
Yale charter, October 9, 1701
When Old Saybrook Was a College Town
October 6, 2019
Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Company
Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Company Puts Best Foot Forward
October 5, 2019
Unveiling of the Grant Memorial Tablet – Today in History: October 4
October 4, 2019
Residence and Library of Ithiel Town, New Haven
American Architect Ithiel Town Born – Today in History: October 3
October 3, 2019
New Haven: What Was Everyday Life Like During the Civil War?
October 2, 2019
Norwich City Hall, Union Square, Norwich, New London County
Site Lines: Monuments to Connecticut’s Lost County Government
October 1, 2019
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, 2019
Pulling Down the Statue of King George II, New York City
Mariann Wolcott and Ralph Earl – Opposites Come Together and Make History
September 29, 2019
Morton Biskind Warned the World About DDT
September 27, 2019
When the NFL Played in Connecticut: The Hartford Blues
September 26, 2019
Penguins, 1933-35, Antarctic
Sixty Degrees Below Zero: Connecticut Man Explores Antarctica
September 25, 2019
Benjamin Spock: Raising the World’s Children
September 24, 2019
Charcoal Kiln, Union
1938 Hurricane Fuels Charcoal Business – Who Knew?
September 23, 2019
Thomas Hooker: Connecticut’s Founding Father
September 22, 2019
Senator William Wallace Eaton
William Eaton, a Peace Democrat and Civil War Opponent
September 21, 2019
Sandbags in Rockville. September 22, 1938
Hurricane of 1938: Connecticut’s Worst Disaster
September 21, 2019
Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station
The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918
September 20, 2019
Art Young, Radical Cartoonist
September 19, 2019
The Rise of the Black Panther Party in Connecticut
September 18, 2019
Amos Doolittle, The looking glass for 1787. A house divided against itself cannot stand
The Connecticut Ratification Convention
September 17, 2019
Needlework by Prudence Punderson
Prudence Punderson, Ordinary Woman, Extraordinary Artist: Needlework in Connecticut
September 16, 2019
Igor Sikorsky and the first successful helicopter built in America, Stratford
Igor Sikorsky and his Flying Machines
September 14, 2019
FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive poster of Victor Manuel Gerena
Financing a Free Puerto Rico: The Great Wells Fargo Heist of 1983
September 13, 2019
Second Congregational Church, Greenwich
Bucket Brigade to the Rescue – Today in History: September 12
September 12, 2019
Connecticut History Day 2020: Breaking Barriers in History
September 11, 2019
Nutrition class, Connecticut Agricultural College
From Aprons to Lab Coats: The Art and Science of Home Economics
September 11, 2019
Combat between the Frigate Constitution and the British Frigate Guerriere
A Patriotic Legacy in Print
September 10, 2019
Prudence Crandall
Prudence Crandall Fights for Equal Access to Education
September 9, 2019
Aerial view of Connecticut State Prison
Wethersfield Prison Blues
September 8, 2019
Hartford County Jail, 1915
The Deplorable History of Hartford’s Seyms Street Jail
September 7, 2019
Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold Turns and Burns New London
September 6, 2019
David Bushnell and his Revolutionary Submarine
September 6, 2019
Catharine Beecher, Champion of Women’s Education
September 5, 2019
Martha Graham, Connecticut College, and the American Dance Festival
September 3, 2019
Training and rescue submarine S-4 submerging
Video – Undersea University – US Navy’s Submarine School
September 2, 2019
Envelope of the Briggs Manufacturing Company
Briggs Manufacturing Drives Voluntown’s 19th-Century Cotton Economy
August 31, 2019
David Humphreys
David Humphreys, Soldier, Statesman, and Agricultural Innovator
August 30, 2019

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