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Sign for the Temperance Hotel, ca. 1826-1842
The Slow Demise of Prohibition in Wilton
December 5, 2021
Mr. Timothy Hall who died with the small pox July 29th, 1775
The Pest House Completed – Today in History: December 4
December 4, 2021
The American Brass Company: Leading the Way in the “Brass Valley”
December 3, 2021
The Revolution of 1817
December 2, 2021
Scrabble tiles
Scrabble Copyrighted – Today in History: December 1
December 1, 2021
Morris Academy
Hidden Nearby: The Morris Academy
November 30, 2021
The White Pine Acts – Who Knew?
November 29, 2021
Danbury Hangings: The Executions of Anthony and Amos
November 28, 2021
Chapel, Industrial School for Girls, Middletown
Thanksgiving and Christmas at Long Lane, 1874
November 27, 2021
Platter with View of New Haven Green
Setting the Table in Historic Style: Connecticut Views on Staffordshire China
November 26, 2021
Detail from a map of Connecticut and Rhode Island, with Long Island Sound, 1776
Boston Post Road Carved out Three Travel Routes through State
November 25, 2021
Governor Wilbur L. Cross
Video: 1938 Thanksgiving Proclamation
November 24, 2021
Gold Hall circa 1900, a men's dormitory named in honor of UConn trustee T. S. Gold. The building burned down in 1914
The First University of Connecticut Trustees
November 23, 2021
Emile Gauvreau and the Era of Tabloid Journalism
November 22, 2021
American Cookery, Amelia Simmons, Hartford
Give Thanks for American Cooking
November 21, 2021
Bacon Jabez House, Woodbury
Daniel Curtiss: The Life of a 19th-Century Self-Made Man
November 20, 2021
Wethersfield's four-wheeled combination hook, ladder and bucket carrier
Connecticut’s Oldest Fire Department
November 19, 2021
American Whaler printed by Elijah Chapman Kellogg
New London’s Indian Mariners
November 18, 2021
Adam Farm in North (or East) Canaan, Connecticut
The Land of Nod Farm, East Canaan, Connecticut
November 17, 2021
April 18, 1991 Headline after State Senate approved gay-rights bill - Hartford Courant
Eighteen Years in the Making: Connecticut’s 1991 Gay Rights Law
November 16, 2021
Seymour was Chusetown – Who Knew?
November 15, 2021
Policeman, ca. 1905
Enforcing Law and Order in Greenwich
November 14, 2021
Uniform of the first rugby team at Yale
Foot Ball Match: Harvard vs. Yale – Today in History: November 13
November 13, 2021
Stubby
A True Dog of War: Sergeant Stubby
November 12, 2021
Connecticut Residents Did Not Let Veterans Day “Go Commercial.”
November 11, 2021
Alfred Howe Terry Born in Hartford – Today in History: November 10
November 10, 2021
Taking on the State: Griswold v. Connecticut
November 9, 2021
Samuel A. Foote
Samuel Foot: A Trader Turned Governor
November 8, 2021
The Articles of Confederation: America’s First Constitution
November 7, 2021
The “Red Scare” in Connecticut
November 6, 2021
Drawing (on) the Connecticut Landscape: Benjamin Hutchins Coe Teaches Americans the Democratic Art
November 5, 2021
A 1761 letter by Wheelock describing the progress of his first female students, Amie and Miriam. Source: “The Occom Circle,” n.d. Dartmouth College.
Amy Johnson: A Mohegan Woman Who Survived Colonialism
November 4, 2021
Election day, Main Street, Hartford
When Elections in Hartford Were a Piece of Cake
November 3, 2021
Map of Plan of the city of New Haven - Connecticut Historical Society Museum & Library
New Haven’s Long Wharf
November 2, 2021
Man wearing a hat with card stating "Bread or Revolution"
How the Wobblies Won Free Speech
November 1, 2021
US District Court, New Haven
Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut – Today in History: November 1
November 1, 2021
Results of Halloween pranks, Windsor
Past Hallowe’en Pranks Bemused Some and Frustrated Others
October 31, 2021
State Tuberculosis Sanitarium, Norwich, Conn.
The White Plague: Progressive-Era Tuberculosis Treatments in Connecticut
October 30, 2021
Illustration of "The Connecticut Courant", Oct. 29, 1764
The Oldest Continuously Published Newspaper – Today in History: October 29
October 29, 2021
The Caribbean American Society float in the West Indian Parade
West Indians in Hartford
October 27, 2021
The Chinese Educational Mission Building in Hartford, 1887
Yung Wing’s Dream: The Chinese Educational Mission, 1872-1881
October 26, 2021
Section of the map "Connecticut, from actual survey" (1813)
Caleb Brewster: A Patriot Against Freedom
October 26, 2021
Trumbull Gallery
Yale University Art Gallery – Today in History: October 25
October 25, 2021
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

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