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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
Hartford County Jail, 1915
The Deplorable History of Hartford’s Seyms Street Jail
September 10, 2021
Prudence Crandall
Prudence Crandall Fights for Equal Access to Education
September 9, 2021
Hiram Percy Maxim
A Diversified Mind: Hiram Percy Maxim
September 8, 2021
The Wheeler & Wilson Ruffler
Wheeler & Wilson: A Stitchy Situation in Watertown
September 7, 2021
Bushnell's Turtle
The Turtle Submarine – Today in History: September 6
September 6, 2021
Sharpe Hill Vineyard in Pomfret
Raise a Glass to Winemaking in Connecticut
September 5, 2021
Straitsville Schoolhouse, Naugatuck
Child Labor vs. Schooling in 19th-century Naugatuck
September 4, 2021
Seaside Sanatorium, Waterford
Seaside Tuberculosis Sanatorium: Waterford’s Contested Oceanfront Gem
September 3, 2021
The Importance of Being Puritan: Church and State in Colonial Connecticut
September 2, 2021
Martha Graham, Connecticut College, and the American Dance Festival
September 1, 2021
Workingmen's Restaurant, 129 Market Street, Hartford.
Serving Up Justice: Hartford’s Black Workers Organize
August 31, 2021
Connecticut Revolutionized Geography – Who Knew?
August 30, 2021
Theodate posing for painter Robert Brandegee in 1902
Theodate Pope Riddle Dies – Today in History: August 30
August 30, 2021
The Child’s Picture Defining and Reading Book by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
August 29, 2021
Lisbon Tunnel Completed – Today in History: August 28
August 28, 2021
Charles G. Finney
Charles Grandison Finney Spreads Revivalism and Education throughout the Mississippi Valley
August 27, 2021
David Humphreys
David Humphreys, Soldier, Statesman, and Agricultural Innovator
August 26, 2021
Rails and Paper Trails
August 25, 2021
Hartford classroom, 1957
Five Minutes that Changed Connecticut: Simon Bernstein and the 1965 Connecticut Education Amendment
August 24, 2021
Portrait of Amos Beman.
The Rev. Amos Beman’s Devotion to Education, Social Activism, and New Haven
August 23, 2021
Dinosaur Tracks
Dinosaur Tracks Found – Today in History: August 23
August 23, 2021
President Roosevelt and his entourage in Hartford
Roosevelt Rides in an Electric Car – Today in History: August 22
August 22, 2021
The Charter Oak before its fall
The Charter Oak Fell – Today in History: August 21
August 21, 2021
A Pie Tin’s Soaring Sales
August 20, 2021
American troops of the 28th Infantry Division march down the Champs-Élysées
Connecticut Servicemen in the “Bloody Bucket” Division
August 19, 2021
Suffragette Helena Hill Weed of Norwalk, serving a 3 day sentence in D.C. prison for picketing July 4, 1917
19th Amendment: The Fight Over Woman Suffrage in Connecticut
August 18, 2021
Jonathan Trumbull, Sr.
Governor Jonathan Trumbull Dies – Today in History: August 17
August 17, 2021
“’No Taxation without Representation’: Black Voting in Connecticut
August 16, 2021
An illustration from A Sketch of the life, trial, and execution of Oliver Watkins
Connecticut Draws the Curtain on Public Executions
August 15, 2021
Senator Brandegee Stonewalls Women’s Suffrage
August 14, 2021
Andover Creamery, 1889
Andover’s Award-Winning Creamery
August 13, 2021
History Day 2022 Debate and Diplomacy
Connecticut History Day 2022: Debate & Diplomacy in History: Successes, Failures, Consequences
August 11, 2021
Hubbell’s Pull-Chain Electrical Light Socket – Today in History: August 11
August 11, 2021

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