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Ernest Borgnine: Breaking the Hollywood Mold
January 24, 2020
Total eclipse of the sun, Willimantic vicinity, January 24, 1925
A Total Eclipse of the Sun – Today in History: January 24
January 24, 2020
Total eclipse by Frederick E. Turner, Willimantic, January 24, 1925
The Astronomical Event of the Century
January 24, 2020
Umbrella Elms in Connecticut Meadow by Aaron Draper Shattuck
Connecticut Transforms Aaron Draper Shattuck
January 23, 2020
Artist’s rendering of the Connecticut Yankee Power Company Plant
Connecticut Yankee and Millstone: 48 Years of Nuclear Power
January 22, 2020
Advertisement for Isaac Doolittle's bell foundry
Early Church Bell Founders
January 22, 2020
Mamie Eisenhower launches the USS Nautilus
The Launch of the USS Nautilus – Today in History: January 21
January 21, 2020
Writing-arm chair attributed to Ebenezer Tracy
Ebenezer Tracy Made Some of the Finest 18th-Century Furniture
January 20, 2020
Attributed to Osbert Burr Loomis, Nancy Toney, oil on canvas
Nancy Toney’s Lifetime in Slavery
January 19, 2020
View of the Hartford Civic Center roof, which collapsed on January 18, 1978
Almost a Tragedy: The Collapse of the Hartford Civic Center
January 18, 2020
Dr. Emma Irene Boardman
Dr. E. Irene Boardman Never Stopped Serving the Public
January 17, 2020
Boot Blacks and the Struggle to Survive in Hartford
January 17, 2020
South view of the Hempstead House, New London
The Joshua Hempsted Diary: A Window into Colonial Connecticut
January 16, 2020
Oakwood Acres temporary housing
The Debate Over Who Could Occupy World War II Public Housing in West Hartford
January 15, 2020
Phoenix Life Insurance Building, Hartford
The Phoenix Building, Hartford
January 15, 2020
The Fundamental Orders
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
January 14, 2020
Tariffville Train Wreck
The Tariffville Disaster – Today in History: January 14
January 14, 2020
Sophie Tucker - World-Telegram photo by Dick DeMarsico
Sophie Tucker, The Last of the Red-Hot Mamas
January 13, 2020
Detail of the W.A. Slater's Jewett City Cotton Mills in the foreground from Jewett City, Conn, bird’s-eye map by Lucien R. Burleigh
The Industrial Revolution Comes to Jewett City
January 13, 2020
Detail of A New and Correct Map of the United States by Abel Buell
An Uncommonly Ingenious Mechanic: Abel Buell of Connecticut
January 12, 2020
Hotchkiss & Sons Artillery Projectiles
Connecticut Arms the Union
January 11, 2020
Music Vale Seminary, Salem
Music Vale Seminary in Salem Credited as Being First in US
January 10, 2020
Connecticut Ratifies US Constitution – Today in History: January 9
January 9, 2020
The Van Vleck Observatory: A Reflection of Environmental Conditions
January 9, 2020
Ella Grasso at the Danbury Fair, ca. 1975-80
America’s First Woman Governor: Ella Grasso, 1919-1981
January 8, 2020
Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut
From the State Historian: Discovering the Explorer Hiram Bingham III
January 7, 2020
Ida Tarbell: The Woman Who Took On Standard Oil
January 6, 2020
Panoramic view of Bushnell Park, Hartford
Land Purchase Becomes Bushnell Park – Today in History: January 5
January 5, 2020
“Tom Thumb” Born – Today in History: January 4
January 4, 2020
Lounsbury Elected Governor – Today in History: January 4
January 4, 2020
Freedom to the Slave
From the State Historian: Connecticut’s Slow Steps Toward Emancipation
January 3, 2020
Maria Sanchez and Alejandro La Luz, Puerto Rican spokesmen, Hartford
Maria Sánchez, State Representative and Community Advocate
January 3, 2020
Manumission document for slave Bristow, from Thomas Hart Hooker, Hartford
Gradual Emancipation Reflected the Struggle of Some to Envision Black Freedom
January 2, 2020
Aerial view of Black Rock Turnpike Bridge and Vicinity
Overland Travel in Connecticut, from Footpaths to Interstates
January 2, 2020
Elizabeth T. Bentley, 1948
Elizabeth Bentley Born – Today in History: January 1
January 1, 2020
Soldiers with cannons, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery
The Complicated Realities of Connecticut and the Civil War
December 30, 2019
Receiving end of the first successful pipe-line built in 1865
William Hawkins Abbott Finds the Energy to Power the Northeast
December 29, 2019
Ice Skates, ca. 1965
Skating Through Winter
December 28, 2019
There’s No Place Like Home for the Designer of Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers – Who Knew?
December 26, 2019
A Godmother to Ravensbrück Survivors
December 26, 2019
Detail from the broadside an "Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly" composed by Jupiter Hammon
Hartford Publishes the First Literary Work by an African American – Who Knew?
December 25, 2019
The Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company in East Hartford
The Early Years of the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company
December 24, 2019
Ingersoll Mickey Mouse Wrist Watch, 1933
Waterbury Clock Company Saved by Mickey Mouse – Who Knew?
December 23, 2019
Courtyard at New-Gate Prison
First New-Gate Prisoner – Today in History: December 22
December 22, 2019
John Warner Barber, South view Bethlehem
The Reverend Joseph Bellamy Makes Bethlehem a Holy Place
December 22, 2019
Spillway and bridge near Saville Dam, Barkhamsted
Barkhamsted Reservoir Construction Washes Away a Community
December 21, 2019
God admonishing his people of their duty, as parents and masters
A Most Unusual Criminal Execution in New London
December 20, 2019
Late 19th century Christmas postcards
Sending Season’s Greetings: Christmas Cards in Connecticut
December 19, 2019
Waterbury’s Holy Land
December 18, 2019
Monumental Bronze Company
December 17, 2019

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