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Map of the 1761 transit of Venus
Transit of Venus: German Scientists Visit Hartford
December 6, 2019
NFL Great, Andy Robustelli of Stamford
December 6, 2019
Sign for the Temperance Hotel, ca. 1826-1842
The Slow Demise of Prohibition in Wilton
December 5, 2019
Just Pour Over Ice – Who Knew?
December 5, 2019
Mr. Timothy Hall who died with the small pox July 29th, 1775
The Pest House Completed – Today in History: December 4
December 4, 2019
The American Brass Company: Leading the Way in the “Brass Valley”
December 3, 2019
Education/Instrucción Combats Housing Discrimination
December 1, 2019
Goshen Animal Pound, circa 1800
Goshen’s Animal Pound
November 30, 2019
A Plan of the Town of New Haven with All the Buildings in 1748
Why Was New Haven Divided into Nine Squares?
November 29, 2019
Sleeping Giant, Mount Carmel, Hamden
A Volcanic Giant Sleeps in Hamden
November 29, 2019
West view, Somers CT
Somers School of the Prophets
November 27, 2019
Broadside announcing changes to Mansfield's Poor-House
Connecticut Poor Law Aimed to Care for the Needy
November 26, 2019
America’s First Ordained Woman Minister: Olympia Brown and Bridgeport’s Universalist Church
November 26, 2019
Charles McLean Andrews and Evangeline Walker Andrews
November 25, 2019
Thanksgiving Proclamation, Matthew Griswold, New Haven, 1785
Governor Griswold’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
November 24, 2019
Emile Gauvreau and the Era of Tabloid Journalism
November 22, 2019
American Cookery, Amelia Simmons, Hartford
Give Thanks for American Cooking
November 21, 2019
Pierre Lallement and the Modern-Day Pedal Bicycle – Today in History: November 20
November 20, 2019
Bacon Jabez House, Woodbury
Daniel Curtiss: The Life of a 19th-Century Self-Made Man
November 20, 2019
Hiram Bingham
Hiram Bingham III: Machu Picchu Explorer and Politician
November 19, 2019
Hopkins Street Center once known as the Pearl St. Neighborhood House
A Woman Who Developed Tolerance: Leila T. Alexander
November 18, 2019
The Deutschland at the Connecticut State Pier in New London
New London Harbors a German Submarine During World War I – Who Knew?
November 17, 2019
Detail of Map exhibiting the route of the Norwich & Worcester Railroad
Iron and Water: The Norwich & Worcester Railroad Story
November 16, 2019
Paul Robeson by Gordon Parks, 1942
“Negroes Who Stand Up and Fight Back” – Paul Robeson in Hartford
November 15, 2019
Meriden Britannia Company, West Main Street, Meriden
Meriden’s Silver Lining
November 14, 2019
Uniform of the first rugby team at Yale
Foot Ball Match: Harvard vs. Yale – Today in History: November 13
November 13, 2019
Little Sorrel
Little Sorrel, Connecticut’s Confederate War Horse
November 12, 2019
Connecticut Residents Did Not Let Veterans Day “Go Commercial.”
November 11, 2019
Honor and Duty: The Life of Alfred Howe Terry
November 10, 2019
The Connecticut Poll Tax
November 9, 2019
The Articles of Confederation: America’s First Constitution
November 8, 2019
The “Red Scare” in Connecticut
November 7, 2019
John F. Kennedy campaigning in New Haven, 1960
The Kennedys in Connecticut – Today in History: November 6
November 6, 2019
Drawing (on) the Connecticut Landscape: Benjamin Hutchins Coe Teaches Americans the Democratic Art
November 5, 2019
Election day, Main Street, Hartford
When Elections in Hartford Were a Piece of Cake
November 4, 2019
John Warner Barber, Public square or green, in New Haven
A Separate Place: The New Haven Colony, 1638-1665
November 3, 2019
Scandal in the Beecher Family
November 2, 2019
US District Court, New Haven
Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut – Today in History: November 1
November 1, 2019
Results of Halloween pranks, Windsor
Past Hallowe’en Pranks Bemused Some and Frustrated Others
October 31, 2019
American Actor Changes 19th-Century Theater – Who Knew?
October 30, 2019
Illustration of "The Connecticut Courant", Oct. 29, 1764
The Oldest Continuously Published Newspaper – Today in History: October 29
October 29, 2019
The Chinese Educational Mission Building in Hartford, 1887
Yung Wing’s Dream: The Chinese Educational Mission, 1872-1881
October 28, 2019
Currier & Ives, The drunkards progress. From the first glass to the grave
The Temperance Movement in Connecticut – Today in History: October 27
October 27, 2019
Corporal Thomas Fox , Second Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, B Company with his regimental flag
Disaster at Cold Harbor: Connecticut’s Second Volunteer Heavy Artillery Regiment
October 26, 2019
Clarence Dickinson Carries Printing Innovation into the 20th Century
October 25, 2019
A Memorial to General Hawley at the State Capitol
October 24, 2019
Connecticut River, 2011
Old Saybrook Faces Down Threats to Its Water Supply
October 23, 2019
Map detail from Turnpikes of Connecticut,
Oxford: From Paths to Pikes
October 22, 2019
Yung Wing
Avon’s Educational and Cultural Pioneer
October 21, 2019
Westport Country Playhouse
Broadway Comes to Westport
October 20, 2019

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