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Benjamin Silliman
Benjamin Silliman and the Collection That Inspired the Yale Peabody Museum
December 8, 2022
Black and white drawing of a man from the waist up. He is wearing a collared jacked with a neck covering
Lemuel Haynes: America’s First Black Ordained Minister
December 7, 2022
Map of the 1761 transit of Venus
Transit of Venus: German Scientists Visit Hartford
December 6, 2022
Little Sorrel
Little Sorrel, Connecticut’s Confederate War Horse
December 5, 2022
East Thompson train wreck, December 4, 1891
The Day Four Trains Collided in East Thompson
December 4, 2022
Southern part of Saltonstalls Pond, East Haven
East Haven was Home to Connecticut’s First Iron Works
December 2, 2022
Pachaug Trail, Wiclcabouet Marsh, Voluntown
The Story of Connecticut’s Largest State Forest
December 1, 2022
West view, Somers CT
Somers School of the Prophets
November 30, 2022
Goshen Animal Pound, circa 1800
Goshen’s Animal Pound
November 29, 2022
Black sign in front of a house
Peter Prudden: Milford’s First Minister
November 28, 2022
Thanksgiving Proclamation, Matthew Griswold, New Haven, 1785
Governor Griswold’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
November 23, 2022
Black and white photograph of a ship at port
They Also Served: Chinese, Southeast Asians, and Hawaiians in the American Civil War
November 22, 2022
Eleven men standing on the deck of a ship
Africans in Search of the American Dream: Cape Verdean Whalers and Sealers
November 21, 2022
Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer
Nathaniel Palmer discovers Antarctica – Today in History: November 18
November 18, 2022
The Deutschland at the Connecticut State Pier in New London
New London Harbors a German Submarine During World War I – Who Knew?
November 17, 2022
The Connecticut Poll Tax
November 16, 2022
Jack Brutus, Connecticut War Dog – Who Knew?
November 15, 2022
Scandal in the Beecher Family
November 14, 2022
Connecticut Residents Did Not Let Veterans Day “Go Commercial.”
November 11, 2022
Black and white photograph of a long large building. There is a river and dam in front
Willimantic’s American Thread Plant–A Multinational Corporate Takeover
November 10, 2022
Wadsworth Atheneum, Morgan Memorial, and Municipal Building, Main Street, Hartford
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
November 9, 2022
Election day, Main Street, Hartford
When Elections in Hartford Were a Piece of Cake
November 8, 2022
A Plan of the Town of New Haven with All the Buildings in 1748
Why Was New Haven Divided into Nine Squares?
November 7, 2022
John F. Kennedy campaigning in New Haven, 1960
The Kennedys in Connecticut – Today in History: November 6
November 6, 2022
Borden's Evaporated Milk Crate Label
Evaporated Milk’s Connecticut Connection – Who Knew?
November 4, 2022
Fire Bucket
Firefighters Answer the Call in Greenwich
November 3, 2022
Black and white image of a stove
The Stamford Foundry Company Made Notable Stoves
November 2, 2022
Native American Musical Instrument - Connecticut Historical Society
Connecticut Native American Arts
November 1, 2022
Gravestones, Old Burying Ground, Hartford
The Art of Burying the Dead: Exploring Connecticut’s Historic Cemeteries
October 31, 2022
Illustration of "The Connecticut Courant", Oct. 29, 1764
The Oldest Continuously Published Newspaper – Today in History: October 29
October 29, 2022
Map detail of an island
The “Welcoming Beacon” of Sheffield Island Lighthouse
October 28, 2022
A family outing in the Woodmont section of Milford, September, 1887
Connecticut’s Sleepy Hollow
October 27, 2022
Woman in military outfit standing between two men who are pinning something to her shoulders.
Colonel Ruth A. Lucas: Literary Advocate
October 26, 2022
John Frederick Kensett, Twilight in the Cedars at Darien, Connecticut
John Frederick Kensett Illuminates the 19th-Century Landscape
October 25, 2022
Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam
Goodspeed Opera House Opens – Today in History: October 24
October 24, 2022
Windsor brickmakers
Building a Nation Brick by Brick
October 23, 2022
Amos Shepard, Plantsville, Design for a Wrench Member
The “Perfect Handle” Hatchet – Who Knew?
October 22, 2022
Map of the Town of New Britain, Hartford County, Conn. From original surveys by E.M. Woodford
“A Noble and Precious Life”: Edgar M. Woodford, Civil Engineer, Abolitionist, and Soldier
October 21, 2022
Yankee Ingenuity: Curtis Veeder, a Mechanical Genius and Shrewd Businessman
October 20, 2022
Wesleyan Hills Helps Redefine Suburbia
October 19, 2022
Black and white photograph of a woman painting a man
Laura Wheeler Waring: Renowned African American Portrait Artist and Educator
October 18, 2022
David Bushnell and his Revolutionary Submarine
October 17, 2022
The Connecticut History Sports Challenge
October 16, 2022
Vietnam Protests in Connecticut
October 15, 2022
Gerald MacGuire and the Plot to Overthrow Franklin Roosevelt
October 14, 2022
Headline of the Yale Daily News newspaper
The Merger That Was Not Meant To Be: Yale University and Vassar College
October 13, 2022
Gerald Chapman: America’s First “Public Enemy Number One”
October 12, 2022
General Joseph R. Hawley
General Joseph R. Hawley Helps Commemorate Connecticut’s Civil War Soldiers
October 11, 2022
Mohegan Federal Recognition
October 10, 2022
Henry Deming: Mayor of Hartford and New Orleans
October 9, 2022

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